There's a sort of... brutal honesty about Australian films. They don't shirk showing very, very bad things happening to the characters. Hideous humiliation, complete degradation, all that sort of thing. No worry. They lay life in all its glorious Aussie detail bare.

I tend not to like it. Call me squeamish (pause for the grand chorus) but it just makes me cringe. I don't like seeing that sort of thing happen to people. That's why I watch movies. If I wanted to see life jump up and down on people, I'd just watch real life.