NVDL: A grand adventure big enough for the strangely beautiful continent it depicts so well.
Wow! Director Baz Luhrmann's beautifully authentic thrilling adventure is what movies were once about. Why do we watch movies after all? To be moved. To experience something...out of the ordinary. " Australia" is magnificent, and its message majestic.
The magic of "Australia" is it captures something beyond the pioneering spirit of those days. It captures the pioneering spirit of film, once upon a time. And it captures the pioneering spirit of childhood.
Yes, there is something of the inner child that "Australia" evokes, thanks to the confluence of strange creatures and random characters, thanks to the dry landscape almost impossible to decipher in places. The vast emptiness seems to cry out.
Against the sheer backdrop of the story, we learn to have the courage to find ourselves. This above all makes it a tremendously poignant and important film.
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