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Where it came from..., December 8, 2006
This review is from: My Brother Jack [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (DVD)
Once upon a time, there was Australia, where prostitution and gambling were not officially legalized major industries in Melbourne, there were enough jobs outside these industries in other fields of activities for Anglo-Saxons-Celts at least, and there were enough newcomers from other places than England for a dirty low paid existence.
This good old time between WWI and WWII has been depicted with a DVD extract of TV show "My brother Jack", at the time a revolutionary tale of ordinary people's family, not a usual Australian story of British adventurers, pirates or simply bandits -- Kelly or other no-ideology-attached criminals.
And this work very much differs from usual Australian top-movies, where stupidity and sexuality rule (Bad Boy Bubby, Strange Bed Fellows for instance), among which recent "Ten Canoes" a welcome sound exemption is.
I will not place this DVD on my shelf, but it is definitely of curiosity for trying understand roots of contemporary Australia.
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