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"What is love? Five feet of heaven in a ponytail
The cutest ponytail that sways with a wiggle when she walks…"
Thanks to Shout Factory, Justin Kurzel's True History of the Kelly Gang has made it to Blu-ray.
Any film that opens with an eagle's eye view of a rider crossing the Australian badlands nicely garbed in a bright red gown, will most assuredly be taking a unique perspective of historical events. And True History doesn't let us down.
With occasionally surreal visions of a gang that chose to fight in women's clothing, and steel armor, some might see it as potentially slightly trans or homoerotic, but I honestly didn't have a clue.
With a bravura performance by George MacKay as Ned Kelly, the film is never less than a disturbing blend of 19th century history bent into the structure of a fevre dream.
Beautifully photographed by Ari Wegner, it's a violent, cruel image of the era, and the treatment of Irish immigrants in Australia by their English "masters."
An interesting filmmaker, with a definite voice, and a film that missed a theatrical because of Covid, which may be the reason why (as reported elsewhere) that the 1.85 ratio slowing crops to 2.35 during the film, arriving on Blu instead.
One thing momentarily took me out of the film, when one of the characters holds what I presumed to be either a Colt Walker or dragoon, and it looked very much like a commemorative model Walker made around 1980.
Those things bother me, like a Jefferson nickel appearing in a scene from another film, that occurred pre-1938.
Image - 5
Audio - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
RAH
The cutest ponytail that sways with a wiggle when she walks…"
Thanks to Shout Factory, Justin Kurzel's True History of the Kelly Gang has made it to Blu-ray.
Any film that opens with an eagle's eye view of a rider crossing the Australian badlands nicely garbed in a bright red gown, will most assuredly be taking a unique perspective of historical events. And True History doesn't let us down.
With occasionally surreal visions of a gang that chose to fight in women's clothing, and steel armor, some might see it as potentially slightly trans or homoerotic, but I honestly didn't have a clue.
With a bravura performance by George MacKay as Ned Kelly, the film is never less than a disturbing blend of 19th century history bent into the structure of a fevre dream.
Beautifully photographed by Ari Wegner, it's a violent, cruel image of the era, and the treatment of Irish immigrants in Australia by their English "masters."
An interesting filmmaker, with a definite voice, and a film that missed a theatrical because of Covid, which may be the reason why (as reported elsewhere) that the 1.85 ratio slowing crops to 2.35 during the film, arriving on Blu instead.
One thing momentarily took me out of the film, when one of the characters holds what I presumed to be either a Colt Walker or dragoon, and it looked very much like a commemorative model Walker made around 1980.
Those things bother me, like a Jefferson nickel appearing in a scene from another film, that occurred pre-1938.
Image - 5
Audio - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
RAH
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