Australian Cinema - 'Girl Asleep'
Girl ASLEEP
I thought this movie would be terrible. I was wrong. This is both a wildly surrealistic and a quite honest depiction of the horrors of adolescence. The difficulties of going 'with the crowd' or 'against' it. The setting in the 1970's makes you feel even more sympathy for the 'girl'. Many aren't old enough to remember the 1970's, but it was an odd time; sex, murder, crime, and a whole host of adult issues were discussed in front of children in the English speaking nations and many European countries. People at the time didn't realize this was fairly detrimental to 'childish' minds (psychologically). It was the opposite of the Victorian/Edwardian days, where children were completely damaged by being taught that affection, love, the body were 'filthy' concepts, not to be thought of, nor mentioned amongst 'polite' people. In Tennessee/The Southern (USA), you were confronted by both ideas from 'polite' older relatives and 'modern thought' by parents/young friends/ young relatives. So, the surrealistic/1970's period drama/comedy will hit the mark on an often unprotected youth (1920's to mid 1990's) mentality. The 'mollycoddled take your parents to a job interview generation' will hate the film, excepting the rare gems of that generation. The karate/Kung-Fu scene isn't really off the mark either, because of the incredible amount of violence, bullying and fighting that was considered 'normal' in U.S., Canadian, Australian, European and U.K. Schools at the time... So please have hope, younger generations, things may not seem kosher, but the times are far less dangerous and gun violence is just a drop, compared to the beat downs, rapes, stabbings, drug pushing of the past... In the 50's to late 80's we thought the world would be decimated by nuclear and hydrogen bombs, so think about that one, "yungin's".
I thought this movie would be terrible. I was wrong. This is both a wildly surrealistic and a quite honest depiction of the horrors of adolescence. The difficulties of going 'with the crowd' or 'against' it. The setting in the 1970's makes you feel even more sympathy for the 'girl'. Many aren't old enough to remember the 1970's, but it was an odd time; sex, murder, crime, and a whole host of adult issues were discussed in front of children in the English speaking nations and many European countries. People at the time didn't realize this was fairly detrimental to 'childish' minds (psychologically). It was the opposite of the Victorian/Edwardian days, where children were completely damaged by being taught that affection, love, the body were 'filthy' concepts, not to be thought of, nor mentioned amongst 'polite' people. In Tennessee/The Southern (USA), you were confronted by both ideas from 'polite' older relatives and 'modern thought' by parents/young friends/ young relatives. So, the surrealistic/1970's period drama/comedy will hit the mark on an often unprotected youth (1920's to mid 1990's) mentality. The 'mollycoddled take your parents to a job interview generation' will hate the film, excepting the rare gems of that generation. The karate/Kung-Fu scene isn't really off the mark either, because of the incredible amount of violence, bullying and fighting that was considered 'normal' in U.S., Canadian, Australian, European and U.K. Schools at the time... So please have hope, younger generations, things may not seem kosher, but the times are far less dangerous and gun violence is just a drop, compared to the beat downs, rapes, stabbings, drug pushing of the past... In the 50's to late 80's we thought the world would be decimated by nuclear and hydrogen bombs, so think about that one, "yungin's".
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