films aren't what i usually talk about on the blog. i mean, i'm not a critic about everything. following the life of a writer, danny (played by noah taylor) as he bounces around shared houses in australia under a constantly changing identity, trying to keep the police one step behind him as they engage him in their mundane chase. also following him is a cast of core characters, namely a german pagan lesbian with a taste for chaos, a love interest with all-the-wrong interest in stability, and a heroin junkie named flip, as well as the absurdity that follows when these folks and the law intersect.
this film is extremely well balanced. its sense of absurdity anchored in a cast of characters who exist in our realm of people. it moments of sadness ended with moments of endearing human decency. the writing in this film is another source of balance, masking its depression with riotously funny dialog. also the directing in this film, handled by richard lowenstein, there is a special importance to the houses where he lives and who he ends up living with.
also, this song is fantastic (same one from the trailer, by the stranglers:
want to get married?
no, i've got to go out later.
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