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Somersault
the one line review:
australian flick with nipples
the overview
Read the blurb about this film and you think it's gonna be some poncy shmoncy chick flick about some bird who runs away from home in a kind of Reece Witherspoon style. Couldn't be more different than that. Except the girl does run away from home.
the plot:
Heidi (Abbie Cornish) gets caught kissing her Mum's boyfriend, and decides the best thing to do is to runaway to some small town skiing resort in the middle of Australia. When she gets there, she realises she has no money, no friends and no idea what to do. So the first thing she does is goes to a party, gets shitfaced and shags some bloke. Goes back to this, but he fucks off home the next day so she's back to square 1. So she does the same again. he takes her to a motel, and somehow she manages to blag a stay there. She also gets a job working in the "servo" (what we'd call a garage). And she starts seeing the bloke she met on night 2. Things drag on, he turns out to be a bit of a weirdo (tries to get off with her mum's best friend, who's a bloke, by the way), she gets a bit pissed off so tries to cop off with two blokes. Then it all comes crashing down.
the verdict:
It won't be what you're expecting. It's Australian and it's low budget. The mood of the film is quite depressed; quite dark and very moody.
I'll get this out the way early: Abbie Cornish is hot. Well. Actually, she's one of those birds who has a bizarre knack of being really really fit, then really plain, without changing anything. But most of the time she's fit. And you see her norks, repeatedly. And her ass. Unfortunately though, you do see a bloke's todger, and a bloke snog another bloke and I think you'll agree with me, there's never any reason to see that.
The main issue with this film is simple: it's obviously a film designed to make a point. It has a moral. But the actual point is really hard to decipher - you're not slapped around the face with it like you usually are. Which is fine if you're prepared to work for it, but most people aren't, so you're left feeling a bit unsure, and wondering like WTF (lol). ;)
But it's fun. It has a real low budget charm to it; something that really ought to win a pantload of awards for being a great film with no money.
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