Until the 1970's, Australia had the strictest movie censorship in the western world. I guess it's in the western world. When censorship was finally lifted, they started churning out very seedy, violent, sex movies. I don't know what it tells you. Either Australians NEEDED censoring, or they were kept in a state of childlike innocence so long that they didn't know how to handle their newfound freedom.
Or maybe the crap they made was of great artistic merit. Quentin Tarantino seemed to think so.
Australia made perfectly nice movies, too.
An Australian girl in my high school gave a presentation to the class about her country and a boy asked about something he saw in an Australian movie, a scene with sweaty girls in a classroom doing breathing exercises. She said, no, they don't do that. He was talking about the movie Walkabout.
Focuses only on Australian exploitation films. It didn't make me want to watch any of them. I usually find movies about foreign national cinema interesting, but this got dreary.
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