Synopsis
Australia's most infamous crime story
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
2011 Directed by Justin Kurzel
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Lucas Pittaway Daniel Henshall Louise Harris Frank Cwertniak Matthew Howard Marcus Howard Anthony Groves Richard Green Aaron Viergever Beau Gosling Brendan Rock David Walker Kathryn Wissell Bryan Sellars Craig Coyne Keiran Schwerdt Aasta Brown Allan Chapple Andrew Mayers Krystle Flaherty Denis Davey Robert Deeble Bob Adriaens
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Film#53 of 'It's June Jim, but not as we know it'
Relentless. That's what this film is. After finishing this I felt fatigued, drained and quite depressed. Any film that manages to accomplish that deserves a compliment, even if it purposefully kicked my ass for about two hours.
This true story of Austraila's most notorious serial killer is anything but an attempt to glamorize violence or exploit it. It is more an examination, you could even say it isn't about the killer at all. The focal point lies with his stepson, who is a victim of circumstance, stuck in a life that can only lead to despair. Violence, abuse and an absence of love are the order of the day…
Snowtown is an excellent film. Read some other reviews to find out why because although I admire it, I hate it.
It’s made me confused about what actually makes a film worthwhile. There’s no easy answer, sure, but I can’t even get close to working out what I think! As of today, my tentative feelings on Snowtown are that a film about Australia’s most infamous serial killers shouldn’t be just a showcase for awesome film-making abilities. We already know that some people are incoherently evil and that many people are poor and that a lot of the poorer areas of Australia really suck to live in. These horrible events make us feel horrible to watch them, but for what purpose?…
If the question is "What is the distinction between serial murder, murder conspiracy and political extermination campaigns?", the answer could be "Scale, involvement and outreach".
Snowtown treads carefully in its depiction of real life murders. It demystifies the serial killers at its centre. The film is not about murder, it is about a broken community where evil has emerged. The characters are caught in a whirlwind of anger, getting themselves irate and paranoid about imagined threats of paedophiles within their community, essentially distracting themselves from their real problems. They have no authority figures and feel there is no sense of justice, allowing charismatic evil to fill that void. Snowtown presents a decaying world, of people who live without hope, in filth and blood. Fragile masculinity hangs over the picture, as characters feel they have to stamp out weakness and partake in brutality. Anger, pain, and…
Jesus this was a tough watch. The violence in this was depicted with such an intense realism that makes it incredibly tough to watch, as a film of this subject matter should be. The cinematography was a standout element of this for me, depicting such a grimy, brutal world and juxtaposing that with the youthful innocence of the protagonist as he is corrupted by these vile murderers.
The streets of Salisbury North are maybe the ugliest places in Australia. Or at least, that's how they're depicted in the film 'Snowtown.'
The film tells the chilling true story of the Snowtown murders. We follow Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) who lives in what only can be described as hell on earth with his mother and his brothers. The environment Jamie lives in is so horrendous that it seems rape, pedophilia and murder have become just a part of life.
Not too far into the film, we are introduced to John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) who is charming, dominant and unpredictable. He starts dating Jamie's mother, which maybe is just a tactic Bunting uses so he can get to her sons,…
Snowtown is brutal because it needs to be brutal. It’s based on a string of Australian serial murders, and this film doesn’t hold back in its physical or psychological depiction. John Bunting reels in the 16-year-old son of his girlfriend by manipulating his righteous anger about abuse. Once Bunting has control of the kid, though, he intimidates and terrorizes him into at first being a bystander to the crimes, and eventually participating in them.
Daniel Henshall is amazing in his role as John Bunting. He can look at someone and make them think they’re the most important, praiseworthy person in the room. He can look at someone with a half-smirk that says they are a pitiful, disgusting excuse for a…
I was promised a gritty crime story of a real-life serial killer. What I got was a painfully slow, gritty (success there, I guess), and disturbing portrait of about the worst Australian neighborhood I can imagine that turned into torture porn after about an hour. This was not for me, and I'm honestly confused by the amount of positive reviews. Two stars: one for being effectively disturbing and gritty, and the other for cinematography.
One of of not the most in your face, disturbing films ever made about a serial killer......not for the squeamish.