GOLD
Recommended. Anthony Hayes directed, co-wrote and co-starred with Zac Efron in this intense survival thriller. The whole film, from the opening, sees incredible squalor in which it's easy to induce in one the overwhelming desire for gold. An Aboriginal woman with a baby on the train and the protagonist on the same wagon, sees him in the middle of nowhere and at the society's bottom. At the station you overhear a TV program mention "natural selection" - every uttered line matters, just like in the rest of this gripping movie. The barren landscape itself indicates matters of life and death will be at stake. Ominous pictures in the first half: of the land and the sky - the cinematography and the colours of the pictures stand out and stay in your memory long after. Zac Efron gives an Oscar-worthy performance.
13. LGBT+ FILM FESTIVAL
CURED
Recommended. From the initial hard-hitting stories and images of how sadistic psychiatric treatments were and how the American Psychiatric Association consisted of elderly men exclusively, through the courage of initially just a few, to the glorious victory not only in the medical re-classification deleting homosexuality from the disease list but also to the change in the media, especially pop culture, which aided in bringing gays to the mainstream. Lots of interesting facts, e.g. a psychiatrist's son being gay. A truly engaging documentary.
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