Backbencher

The Last Wave by Peter Weir was a very strange movie, and I barely understood it at all. I think this might be in part because it is made in a different culture at a very different time in society so it is hard to relate to what the characters are thinking. The movie starts out with a few examples of extremely weird weather in Australia. Then the movie starts to focus on David Burton a financial lawyer who gets a phone call to represent five aborigines in a murder trial for legal aid. The night he agrees to help them he starts having strange dreams about Chris one of the aborigines men who are on trial for murder. He also starts having weird dreams about water. David starts to talk to Chris about these dreams he is having and it is akin to Alice in wonderland and David gets to see how deep the rabbit hole was.


During one part of the movie that really irked me was while a storm was tearing apart the, David’s house instead of checking to see if his wife and kids are ok he runs out the door following Chris, the main aborigines character in the movie. I also believe that the ending of that movie was the worst ending to a movie I have seen in a long time. It was scattered hard to follow little lone understand what happens. Then to end it all it ends something like how planet of the apes ends were you have a good idea what happened but it doesn’t end really.

Something that I found very interesting was the mythology of the aborigine’s people. I think that the mythology was the best thing to get out of this movie. The show was kind of sci-fi so I am not sure how much of the mythology was real aborigine mythology and how much was added for the movie.