Currently watching 'The Beach' on SBS - journey into place + self. Warwick Thornton gets close to the land at Jilirr, on the Dampier Peninsula in far north Western Australia. He gives us a sense of how Country might taste, how it might nourish the spirit.https://t.co/pdYvc3hn4k— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 29, 2020
The filming is spectacular... inside the shack, the shadowy tin walls and outside - pristine waters beneath a sunset... And a touch of music that does not intrude...just lends some pause and a little pace... pic.twitter.com/tuj6KcDilN— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 29, 2020
Somehow...The screen dissolves...and you feel as if you are there...right there...you feel and taste the air...the thoughts and feelings seem to align your own thoughts and feelings...You know them...and you feel close to country...the rhymes and rhythms of all that is country...
#TheBeach is spectacular. If ever a film brings 'us urban dwellers' close to the spirit of country, this one does. It rouses a kind of longing to be even closer... let go the luggage... enjoy the rhythms landscape through night and day...— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 29, 2020
#TheBeach And so the old buggy gets stuck in the sand. And Warwick sings as he digs 'Don't take it personal'... What a brilliant attitude... No frustration...Just sing as you work...— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 29, 2020
#TheBeach The final thoughts... sung...'Grow you little bastard grow' (mentioned during the film as Thornton grows his cooking supplements) but the same words at the end of the film take on quite a new level of meaning... It's a total winning doco...Now...Where's the cookbook?— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 29, 2020
I definitely 2nd that! It's a great 'wake up' call. https://t.co/8lioqgeyyZ
— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 29, 2020
