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My Year Without Sex (2009)
An understated look at love and life in middle-class Australian suburbia
I enjoyed watching this film. I laughed and I shed a tear. I would like to watch it again as there are parts of the movie that are worth re-examining.
Set in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, this film touches on many of the day-to-day issues that Australian families are concerned with. Whether it be paying bills, how to bring up children, career management and of course, inter-personal relations.
At an even deeper level, this movie examines a post-Christian society and some of the ways that people address the existential questions.
Covering such a broad range of issues in a film means that only one of them is examined in depth. What keeps a marriage together "in sickness and in health?".
One thing did get under my skin. The annoying cliché that portrays the struggling family as virtuous and their richer, flamboyant relatives as morally deficient.
Chicken Park (1994)
I endured this video for 12 minutes
The giant chicken we could handle. I have no problem with cheep FX (pun intended). I have no problem with Italian 'B' movies. What destroyed it was the lack of comedic writing. The "actors" must have made the dialogue up as they went along. It was not funny. It was degrading, vicious language. I will never get those 12 terrible minutes of my life back. I am a fan of parody spoofs and was looking forward to this movie as it had such wonderful material to lampoon in "Jurassic Park". All that was recognisable was the big gate. The producers probably blew the whole budget on that gate! Plan 9 is a masterpiece compared to this one.