• Director: Justin Kurzel
  • Release Year: 2011
  • Production Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • Run Time: 119 minutes

Snowtown

Description

Lonely and isolated, young Jamie gravitates toward charismatic John Bunting when he helps Jamie and his younger brothers take revenge on their neighbor for abusing and exploiting them. Afterwards, though, Jamie needs a moral touchstone and is drawn into Bunting's brutal world of homophobia and violence.

Themes

Family relationships, Messiahs, Homosexuality, Personal violence, Children, Human nature, Brainwashing, Poverty, Social classes