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Geoffrey Wright (writer)
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4 May 1995 (Australia)
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Everything is about to go totally out of control
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Psycho Joe, a petrol-head from Altona, Melbourne, secures employment at a local Supermarket. Here, he meets the over-sexed Dazey...
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Another Wright film about marginalised Melbournian sub-culture
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Aden Young | ... | Joe | |
| Tara Morice | ... | Savina | |
| Nadine Garner | ... | Roslyn | |
| Ben Mendelsohn | ... | Dazey | |
| Chantal Contouri | ... | Savina's Mother | |
| Petru Gheorghiu | ... | Pop | |
| Arthur Angel | ... | Paul Secchi | |
| Richard Sutherland | ... | Rosco | |
| Anita Cerdic | ... | Lisa | |
| Tommy Dysart | ... | Mr. Graham | |
| Mike Bishop | ... | Dazey's Father | |
| Nick Polites | ... | Paul Secchi's Boy (as Nicholas Polites) | |
| Felix Biviano | ... | Paul Secchi's Boy | |
| Ed McShortall | ... | Ted (as Eddy McShortall) | |
| Peter Houghton | ... | Thomas |
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Speed
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Jane Usher edited most of the film whilst Bill Murphy only edited the final nail biting car chase. The difference in styles in alarmingly striking and genuinely added fuel to the high octane film.
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Joe (Young) is a dangerously introverted young man whose life has been scarred by his former champion shooter father's descent into madness. Savina (Morice) is obsessed with Satan, having been driven mad by her mother's overzealous Christianity. And Dazey (Mendelsohn) and Roslyn (Garner) had their world shattered when Dazey crashed his car at high speed, causing his girlfriend to suffer hideous burns to half of her torso. Together they are four social misfits, whose `greatest thrill is putting the pedal to the metal and drag racing their problems into oblivion.' Was billed as the new film from the director of Romper Stomper, which may have been a mistake: in many ways the two are vastly different films. But like Stomper, Metal Skin focuses on a marginalised Melbourne sub-culture that is made up of mainly the sons and daughters of the working-class society. Wright knows exactly what he's doing, and takes us right to the edge, paradoxically giving us reasons to feel good about our lives by displaying the depressing hopelessness of his characters'. Young is very good, and completely unrecogniseable when compared with his portrayal of a 19th Century German missionary in Serenades, and the rest of the cast put as much into their roles as they possibly can. It's definitely not a pleasant film to watch, and the climax, a thrilling, above-the-law car chase through Melbourne's dockside suburbs, is as good as they get. Also called Speed, but don't get confused between this and the high-energy Hollywood blockbuster of the same year starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock! R:7/10.