I thought this movie was great to see as someone who is not Australian and do not know a lot about its culture and history. They were able to show how Australian society was affected by important and newsworthy happenings through a fictional story. They were very good and cleaver at interrelating such story with the news in a way that looked real. Moreover, we could see the society’s attitudes towards political matters and the way they changed as the reactions of those reporting the news changed as well.
I especially liked that it provided pieces of many aspects of the Australian society of that decade: television, cars, politics, economics, religion, war, porn, racism, and Olympic games, among others. However, I did not like the fact that the film jumped back and forth between black and white and color shots. I was confused and could not understand at first the reasons behind this.
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