Watch: Toomelah 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town..
Plot: In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town.
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Disappointing
Very slow moving and boring. Story follows young aboriginal boy in deprived setting . Very hard to keep interest and gave up ! All characters lack interest and not easy to relate to . I would give this a miss and try a David Gupilil film .
Sen brings a verite, documentary-like realism to the material
Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds and Yellow Fella, etc) is probably our most important indigenous filmmaker, and there is something personal about his new film, which is set in Toomelah, the mission where he was born. Toomelah tells a loosely fictional story of Daniel, a troubled young boy who is bored with school and is hanging out with the wrong crowd. With an absent father, the only real male role model he has is the local drug dealer Linden (Christopher Edwards). Daniel gets caught up in the struggle between Linden and the violent Bruce (Dean Daley Jones), who has just returned to the town after a stint in prison. Sen finds a community in crisis, and while he explores a number of important issues about aboriginal communities, he doesn’t present any easy or comfortable answers. The film follows territory explored in other indigenous-themed dramas, like Samson And Delilah, Yolngu Boy, the recent Mad Bastards, etc, which offer an indictment of the treatment of aboriginal people. Sen doesn’t pull his punches in exploring the depressing life on the mission, and its cycle of despair, dysfunctional families and crime. Shot on a very low budget Sen brings a verite, documentary-like realism to the material with hand held camera and largely unscripted dialogue. The cinematography is striking and captures the natural beauty of the location. The cast comprises of non-professionals, drawn from within the community itself, and their lack of experience sometimes shows in the hesitant performances from some of the performers. Many in the cast are also related to each other, which brings another dimension to the material. However, young Daniel Connors is a natural and gives an impressive and earnest performance as the angry young boy trying to find his place in this remote community.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min) (Australia)
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Ivan Sen
Writer Ivan Sen
Actors Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, Michael Connors
Country Australia
Awards 3 wins & 4 nominations
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