urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20071224.2308 2007-12-25T04:08:00 2007-12-25T04:08:00 2007-12-25T04:08:00 <p>Watched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Farmer">Oyster Farmer</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379918/">imdb</a>). I love this style of Australian filmmaking (Hollywood seems so tired to me sometimes). Had a similar feel in some respects to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantana_(film)">Lantana</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindabyne_(film)">Jindabyne</a>. Oyster Farmer was set on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawskebury_River">Hawskebury River</a>, and featured local background colour including bell birds and trains of the Newcastle line which takes me up to Gosford.</p> <p>On the commentary tracks of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser">The Chaser</a>, they are always talking about how people in Melbourne love it when they go to film there because they get to see places around where they live on TV. I think they must be right, because one of the things I like about the group is that they are almost always pulling stunts around Sydney in places that I recognize. At least part of the appeal to Australian films, for me, is seeing home through another person’s lens.</p>