🎥 Memoir of a Snail

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https://boxd.it/EgX8

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That was good fun @shrewd sigil

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Damn, in person too!?

What did you thinkkkk ?

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Fantastic. Cried a lil, absolutely adored the narrative of it all.

I need some hungry jacks now

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Yesssssss

Lots of people laughed in my screening when ||they mentioned Perth LMFAO||

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Tasmania mention also!

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Yeah!!!

Best of our worlds!!

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Hungry jacks is packed

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Aaaaiiieee

Gonna take my mother when it releases

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She’ll love I say

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Yessss

:)

Definitely going to check out again

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https://youtu.be/LJUosY2DG7M?si=9VwE95Nd85er6B1e

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@naive moat I’m late to the party but I forgot - you’re Australian right?

Adam Elliott does not cease to make an extremely Ozzie movie every time he gets his hands on the clay haha

The dark humor, the references to Australian food (Vegemite, Lamingtons, Cherry Ripe) and culture/government (Australia Post is seen both in this movie and Mary and Max)… it was so attentive to detail

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Hii yes! I’m Australian. I got to see this with Adam doing a Q&A as well. It was a lovely film, and a great experience. But yes, sooo many references to Australia and our pop/culture. I think I understood all but don’t think most outsiders did lol

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I understood the driving on the left

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I liked how they showed Percy Pudel, the father, as a good-hearted dad who happened to struggle with alcoholism rather than an abusive dad. It humanized alcoholics. I know several and Percy was like those I know (they had a tragic past, tried to escape with booze, but are not evil people.)

||It was hard to watch Gilbert’s upbringing though. I briefly went to a fundamentalist high school, as did my brother, and while the movie version is clearly exaggerated, the erm, fundamentals of extreme religious belief are absolutely rock solid. You only read prescribed textbooks, everyone else must conform to the rules, the authorities use religious texts of punishment and Hell to keep people in line but ignore the teachings about love and mercy.||

||In my brother’s high school, they literally spoke in tongues like the apple farming family.||

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Our cinema got the biggest laughs when Western Australia was mentioned hahaha

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Mine did also. Poor Perth goers lol

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LMFAO

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How so?

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I am from there LMFAO

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@shrewd sigil Apples do grow there I learned, but they aren’t all farmed by homophobes.

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Hopefully our farmers have become more inclusive LMFAO

Lmfao they specifically mentioned Perth too, funny to think I was basically there that night for the WA premiere

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I actually went to a fundamentalist homeschool high school. Ruth and Owen are similar to more than a few families and leaders - the weird naturopathic beliefs infused with Christian fundamentalism, the parents who sheltered their children from the real world, the fact many of the families were even farmers…

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Interesting

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I don’t know if homeschooling is legal in Australia

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I don't believe it is.

I've not really met people who have done it

Would be a little weird for it to be illegal though

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Either way, Adam brilliantly chose an LGBT comedian to voice an extreme homophobe which is a nice touch

I don’t know much of the other VAs though other than Jacki Weaver

They are probably more well-known in Australia than in America.

I don’t watch Succession for example so I have no idea who Sarah Snook is.

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Oh really? That's pretty funny

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Magda Szubanski

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I am familiar with Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver

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Eric was also in Mary and Max

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I believe he was Mary's husband

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||Ex husband
He was actually gay and cheated on her with his penpal in New Zealand||
(Mary and Max spoilers)

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I have seen it, it's just been a while.

And honestly I wish it got a Blu-ray reprint, because it's rare as hell nowadays

[tall robin]

Covering my ass there with that 😆

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Well it was originally distributed by Icon, which I do not believe exist anymore

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I’d gladly get Mary and Max on Blu Ray if it came

It has solid rewatch value

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It's so good

Glad this will also be going physical next month

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As an American I also want to say it’s stupid this movie is rated R. It is no Saw.

It is not Reservoir Dogs.

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Neither is Stand By Me.

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Sure, it’s not for children, but it is more PG-13 than R to me.

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It's so PG-13 but it's all because the characters swear

Smh

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Well, Americans are prudes when it comes to nudity.

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I mean there are a lot of innuendos and nudity

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It’s stupid.

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CRAZY THAT IT'S ONLY AN M HERE THOUGH

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Yeah I was going to say about the M

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The Matrix was M too I believe

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We're so crazy man

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That’s also rated R here, but isn’t any more violent than a PG-13 movie in my opinion.

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America should just adopt a 5th rating smh

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Agreed. Australia is able to distinguish the spectrum of “adult-oriented movies” better than us.

There is a world of difference between Hostel and Phantom Thread

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Our ratings are great. We hardly get any rated films these days

[tall robin]

Well, The Substance

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2021 Suicide Squad was almost an R before recuts were made

Most R rated content these days are horror

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But Adam Elliott isn’t the type to direct “high impact content” 😆 he has a humorous and kind of cutesy, darkly comedic style that has a big impact, sure, but is not that graphic.

For example I laughed pretty hard during the scene where Pinky got her finger sliced - I felt a little bad for doing so, but that was his intention. He finds humor in even the grimmest, most morbid moments.

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I mean, was Mary and Max a PG-13 in America?

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@shrewd sigil No. It didn’t have a rating. Had it gotten one, it would easily be PG-13. It was “just PG” in Australia last I checked.

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Interesting