Australia

Last night I went to the cinema with Davids mum and sister, to see the newly released film Australia. It was the most stunning, romantic, action packed, and heart warming film I have seen in such a long time 🙂 Its no typical, “boy meets girl, they fall in love, followed by unexpected drama, boy looses girl, anti climax leads to bad guys winning, but good guy saves the day and wins girl back” Its set in northern Australia just before World War II, an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (played by Nicole Kidman) inherits her husbands cattle ranch in Darwin. She joins forces with Drover (Hugh Jackman) who is a drover – funnily enough – and in order to save her new property from takeover, they drive over 2000 cattle over the harsh Australian outback into the city, with a team of 6 other riders, and a fair share of drama is encountered by them along the way. They are in the middle of the chaos when Darwin gets bombed by the Japanese forces. It is such a fast moving and captivating film from start to finish, and is packed with so much plot and character development and twists and turns, and for sitting on your arse for 2 hours and 45 minutes, no bloody wonder! I know there are lots of people that wouldn’t think of going and seeing this film, but it honestly for me ticked nearly every genre box in the book. I love romance and action, especially when the story is linked to fact, not just fiction, and is intertwined with real history too.Oh dear, Im totally ranting on here. But it was one of those films that ‘make you think’… ye know? And make you feel all nice inside. I’d love to end up working on a film like that one day. Dreamer :]

Nullah: Mrs. Boss! We gotta get those fat cheeky bulls into that big bloody metal ship!