Sweet Country

Sweet Country

Justice itself is put on trial

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Release Date

1/25/2018

Runtime

113 mins

Overview

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

-

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A taut Western chase that becomes a meditation on injustice itself, as a system rigged against an Aboriginal man forces him to run for his life. Grounded in the brutal realities of 1920s Australia, it asks whether the law can ever protect those it was built to exploit.

Mood

TenseBleakDefiantMournful

Themes

SurvivalJusticeRacePowerColonialism

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDesaturated

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Racial violenceSexual violence

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