Sadly Over-hyped

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

What a horrible movie despite some big name actors being in it ! Waste of time , predictable and just hard to even keep interested in this boring and incoherent trash ! I am going to avoid Australian movies this is the third bad one I have watched I don't think they made a good movie in Australia since road warrior :) anyway they are a sharp contrast to Norway which the last several films I saw from Norway and a series were excellent ! Australia you are on movie probation !

Literally just finished this film. It gets 2 stars due to, lets see, the acting from the key actors is well done.... to the best of their abilities within this epic lengthy jungle. The film makes zero sense, there are zero redeeming qualities about literally every single character in the film.... There was a beginning, a middle, and end. So sure, they wrote a film and had good actors in it. But the story had zero substance to it. I am NOT someone who has to have that magical "HAPPY ENDING".... but my gosh, a plot that makes sense with a really sad or scary or profound ending is a step up from how this thing trailed off into more NOTHINGNESS. I had a headache by the ending of it, because I was trying to figure out what the hell the story was even attempting at, ANYWHERE within the 2 hours it drags on. The ending was not satisfying at all, even if a person dies, at least that gives some semblance of closure to the storyline but nope. Not even that. Maybe this is one of those story's that is best left to it's novel format and not really great in it's re-write for filming. It just was one royal pointless headache cloying mash up of senselessness. The director clearly thought literally NOTHING of the audience or the potential impact it might have. The director clearly didn't care about those who would be watching this. I wish I could say that the "scenery" was worth the "watch".... but no it was not at all. Who cares if it's in Australia..... there are places in America that look identical to the landscape down under. Short cut always and helicopter pans are not really featured long enough or handled well in the post-production of this film. This truly was another disappointing film. I enjoy each individual "famous actors" and applaud them for going through the effort to sign on to this massive nut job of a storyline. Maybe that was the point of the film.... everyone was certifiably insane? Yes, No? *Shrugs*.

was this movie a reason for Nicole Kidman to get naked one last time ? this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. their doesn't seem to be any cohesion to the plot at all they hit every Australian screen gem cliché they use the usual token aborigine characters present in every Australian film. The only wisdom i take from this film is that every white woman in the world is longing for a retarded aborigine to meet their needs.

I almost never review movies and I often like a tidy ending, but what intrigued me about this movie is that after scouring reviews, there were none I could find that touched on what I felt stood about about this storyline. Even a director-interview touched only on how different characters dealt with grief in the movie.Sure there was a lot of grief going around, but much more interesting was the element of a teenage female sociopath. The character of Lily went beyond simple promiscuity. She upended her former teacher's life. Was not only adept at seducing men at an early age, but also chronicled her conquests in her diary in an explicit way that clearly points to sociopathy.Parallels are drawn between her mother's need for sexual attention and manipulation with her own. The fact that she didn't take care of her brother and may have willingly abandoned him suggests something even more sinister. Particularly the haunting refrain of being touched in the dark. She gives us no reason to believe that she looks out for her younger brother, given that she will disappear into the box with him standing by helplessly. It is part of her power over him that she can do this without fear of reprisal from him. Ask how she manages to pull all this over on him and her parents?I came to the conclusion that she had abused her younger brother in some way, exerting her control over him in the darkness 'when no one can see.' Getting him to 'touch her' and do her bidding. Why else would a healthy boy not be able to sleep and instead wander aimlessly in the night? Why does she go after him, and why does she as the older, responsible one let it go so far as to allow him to almost meet his demise?Her father sensed it intuitively, which was why he feared for her early on and either reacted violently to protect her, or felt she deserved to be punished. Only a pretty screwed up girl would act out so extremely at such a young age. The father also recognized narcissistic tendencies in his wife. Perhaps the mother had a male relative who abused her in the past and there could have been a continuation of that with Lily as a child that was not overtly suggested.The mother's downward spiral toward the end also reinforced that notion as her daughter's disappearance reignited buried psychological trauma that plays out in a psychotic break for her which is witnessed by the townspeople. I felt the movie overall was well-acted by all involved and well-directed. Kudos to the independent film!