Halfway done, and movie fatigue is starting to set in. I'd been curious about this Australian-made neo-nazi pic for a while and it popped up on one of the movie channels last night. The film is reminiscent of "A Clockwork Orange" in a way, as it asks you to empathize with a group of unsympathetic street thugs. It didn't work very well for me, I still found it really hard to care for the characters as they got beat up by Vietnamese immigrants in retaliation for their bullying. Russell Crowe is the alpha male of the group and does a good job portraying the conflict between his cool headed leadership and the stark-raving madness of his neo-nazi paranoia.
The soundtrack features a lot of punk songs with neo-nazi lyrics. I'm curious if the songs are authentic or if they were written for the movie. Either way it's effective at setting the tone. Unsettling: yes. Watchable: yes. Miss-able: yes.
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