Keywords: Brisbane Writers Festival
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 June 2010
23 Comments
The Nigerian priests are disturbed that many Australian Catholic parents send their children to Catholic school but not to Mass. The structured religious lives of children in Nigeria mean that one seminary has had to restrict its intake numbers to 90 per year.
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The trial and execution of Soraya M are portrayed in agonising, visceral detail. The stoning of 'adulterous' women under the auspices of
Shariah law is shown to be less
about violence inherent to Islam than the egos of brutal and bullying men.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A scene where Connor carries Mia, who pretends to sleep, to her bedroom
and removes her jeans, finds a fine line between tender and
predatory. His behaviour is somewhere sex-ward of fatherly. The feeling is
mutual, but then again, she is only 15.
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The pastor terrifies and humiliates his adolescent son with tall tales about
a painful and fatal illness that can be contracted through
masturbation. We are led to believe such secret acts of parental abuse lay at the core of the more public crimes that occur in the village.
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Tony is the working class underdog battling to excel in a sport
dominated by private school boys. The temptation for the poor westie Tony to engage in petty crime is a
cliché too far, but does help to highlight the social structures that
define Tony's world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 April 2010
3 Comments
Fingers, impossibly nimble, weave melody amid the dappled tips of sunny
seas. Rush it to foamy, gushing peaks. Drop it amid thundering, vigorous
rolls. Set it adrift once more, wet, bruised and quietly thrilled.
It's the moment when God arrives, whatever it is you understand 'god' to
be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 April 2010
War films tread a fine line if they are to respect the
experiences of soldiers without glorifying war. Beneath Hill
60 is the true story of Australian miner-soldiers tasked with tunnelling
beneath the front lines during World War I.
It is not unkind to the Anzac myths.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 April 2010
'Like most politicians, she was driven by psychological angels and demons', writes musician David Byrne of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady ofthe Philippines. Byrne has written a 'musical' about Marcos' life. From the outset, he risks deifying a monster.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 April 2010
In comics, the X-Men's 'mutant' powers make them the target of bigotry. They function as a metaphor for homosexuals and other persecuted minorities. In Micmacs, Bazil, ostracised from his 'normal' life by a bizarre crisis, also finds himself on the margins of society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 April 2010
Youthful hacker Lisbeth Sallander is capable of great
violence. But often her violence is a response to that which has
been inflicted upon her. Her investigation of a decades old missing person case will test her capacity for mercy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 March 2010
1 Comment
Dave Hughes' presence in the line-up is likely justified more by ratings potential
than by any insights he might offer. The good will inherent to The 7pm Project's presentation makes it
a positive alternative to other more lecherous, leach-like current
affairs programs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 March 2010
2 Comments
The soldiers are trained to walk through walls, become invisible and killgoats with only their minds. It's difficult todiscern any particular satirical point to the story aside from the occasionalnod to non-violence and the turtuous capabilities of Barney theDinosaur.
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