This has been on our Netflix queue for about three years because our list is like 400 movies long or so, and it's not getting any shorter (as I discovered when we were ready to send this one back and I went online to find out what was coming up and saw that we also have had the same movies in our house for about three months). This is how they make money, in case you people who get 6 movies a week ever wondered.
Anyway, I was also preparing a final presentation on the political and historical contexts of graduation tests while watching this, so mostly what I got from it is:
- It's in Australia. Did you know it's in Australia? Did you also know that their accent can be 90% approximated by replacing every vowel sound with the hard EEEE (as long as you say it with your bottom chin jutting out)?
- Baz Luhrman is a weird, weird dude. I like that.
- There are Hispanics, or at least folks who live in a barrio and speak Spanish, in Australia. Did you know that? Turns out, I know very little about Australia.
- Ballroom dancing is fun and edgy if they're allowed to dance whatever steps they want. Or, as they say in Australia, steeeps.
- How do I not have cable and also go through Netflix movies at a rate of 1 every quarter year? Because I'm smart and I don't watch television because it's bourgeois. Or else because The Price Is Right is just that addictive.
So, there you go. Check out this movie if you like flamboyant costumes and the Australians. Or, if you like that massive closeup shot from above that Baz Luhrman favors, which makes everyone look like a shiny, bloated wax statue. In other words, A-plus!
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This is about the speed at which I remember to send my NetFlix back. Plus, I have the NetFlix guilt to deal with. In that, I received this movie, but now don't really care to watch it, but maybe I'll want to watch it next week, so I'll hang on to it, but then next week rolls around and I don't want to watch it because, really? I've never even heard of this movie, so I forget to return it and then stumble across it in my bathroom counter two months later and think, "What the hell is this? Maybe I'll want to watch it next week," and the whole thing starts all over.
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