I watched this film with my wife. As a resident of St Kilda, this film did not even come close to capturing the experience of the people experiencing homelessness.
Firstly, the production. This has some of the laziest and uninspired film work I have ever seen.
In one scene, Tina drops something and the camera lazily tilts down to show her picking it up. Would it really have been so hard to film a close up?
Or another scene that involved a shot out of a the rear of a moving car... You could clearly see the heat strip lines out of focus. It wasn't done well enough to be intentionally 'artsy', so it just looked terrible.
The plot was also meandering and pointless, the subplot involving Frances's partner was ridiculous. A heavy and serious topic that was casually thrown around, as if provide some validation as to why she (Frances) was in torment over her own health situation. But then it is simply never mentioned again.
Did the producers just want to show all men as monsters? There were other ways they could've provided Frances with the mental anguish, that wouldn't have sucked oxygen from the movie in this way.
The random switch to a country town was equally head scratching, as was the ending. Did the production team have free use of a house in country Victoria or something?
The film dawdles towards an ending that leaves you feeling like they left off the final third of the movie. With such bland, uninspired film making as their basis, it's hard to be critical of what were dull performances from the cast.
The creators, perhaps in their own heads, seemed to have forgotten that people would actually need to watch this mess.
Avoid. Simply avoid.
Firstly, the production. This has some of the laziest and uninspired film work I have ever seen.
In one scene, Tina drops something and the camera lazily tilts down to show her picking it up. Would it really have been so hard to film a close up?
Or another scene that involved a shot out of a the rear of a moving car... You could clearly see the heat strip lines out of focus. It wasn't done well enough to be intentionally 'artsy', so it just looked terrible.
The plot was also meandering and pointless, the subplot involving Frances's partner was ridiculous. A heavy and serious topic that was casually thrown around, as if provide some validation as to why she (Frances) was in torment over her own health situation. But then it is simply never mentioned again.
Did the producers just want to show all men as monsters? There were other ways they could've provided Frances with the mental anguish, that wouldn't have sucked oxygen from the movie in this way.
The random switch to a country town was equally head scratching, as was the ending. Did the production team have free use of a house in country Victoria or something?
The film dawdles towards an ending that leaves you feeling like they left off the final third of the movie. With such bland, uninspired film making as their basis, it's hard to be critical of what were dull performances from the cast.
The creators, perhaps in their own heads, seemed to have forgotten that people would actually need to watch this mess.
Avoid. Simply avoid.