Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Our environment is so saturated by American media, from a society where race remains the defining tension and primary lens, that I know far more about racism in America than I do about my own country -- and so The Nightingale's unflinching vision of colonial abuses in Tasmania forces some uncomfortable self-reflection.
Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict in indentured servitude, seeks revenge on an English lieutenant (Sam Claflin), two murders and two rapes into the film's unrelenting series of atrocities. Accompanied by a local Aboriginal tracker, Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), they head off into the woods for some more. It's almost oppressively long, but that's rather the point: an extended tour of helplessness and fear, life and death at the whim of white men.