Merkinator Z

I'm obviously too dumb to understand this movie. I'm assuming it was trying to say 'oh look - the white man's religion has extinguished the indigenous boy's spark', but it took about an hour longer than it needed to make the point. Maybe that wasn't even the point. Not a lot of dialogue - just loads of long, lingering looks and wordless scenes where the visuals were obviously meant to do the talking, but it got boring after a while. There also seemed to just be random events plonked in there which I'm sure made sense to clever people, but not this bogan. I don't mind Blanchett's stuff but this character just seemed like an amoeba. I love Deb Mailman and Wayne Blair, and their characters piqued a bit of interest for me but ended up just feeling like loose threads. Aesthetically, it kinda had the same wanky 'harsh Aussie landscape' vibe as Picnic at Hanging Rock and others of that ilk. As I was watching it, I got the same feeling I got when I had to read Voss in high school English - just felt like something that upper middle class people sit around talking about how profound and wonderful it all is even when they secretly think it's excrement. Anyway, what the hell would I know.