Australia

We finally made it to Australia - The Movie! It has been out for a few weeks now and I had those free tickets that were given as a freebie in R.M. Williams but I was waiting for the opportunity. And when it arose, I learnt while at the ticket counter, that the free tickets were only valid at Hoyst cinemas and there are none in Darwin! Ah! Ah! Irony! Anyway, Baz Luhrmann's vision of Australia is a bit distorted by strange filming techniques and colours but I was still thrilled on a few occasions by all the references to Darwin. Actually what touched me the most were the two sentences about the Aboriginal rights and Kevin Rudd's National Pardon at the end of the 2 hours 30 minutes long movie. It will certainly be a bit lost in translation when it is out in France on the 24th of December since I do not really see how they can translate those very Australian 'bloody' expressions and accents. I was expecting to complain the movie would be inundated with Australian cliches but in the end I found it was lacking them!