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Seed (2000)
a refreshing "boy's own" view of the world
This is a little film with some big ideas and aims that are achieved beautifully. Mr Redman is obviously a person who has some life experience and is not afraid to share your innermost longings and thoughts with the world - something we don't see enough of in films made by men.
The film is a clever classic "hero's journey" with stunning photography and a refreshing visual style. The narration by Simon Westaway is delivered with comedy and empathy. The actors do a great job inspite of not having a huge amount of scripted dialogue to deliver. We feel their pain and their joy, we comfortably travel with them.
I saw Seed at the St Kilda Film festival last year and more recently at "jaffas down the aisle" and was touched by it's honesty and its' tribute to fathers and fatherhood in a time when most people are happy to swallow the post-feminist propaganda about this very important part of life.
City Loop (2000)
An interesting effort but generally flawed
I saw "city loop" at Toronto a couple of years ago and more recently on Cable here in Australia. The script is generally too smart by half and tries to be very sassy but the director just didn't pull it off.
It probably needed some flesh to be exposed for it to have any credibility as a teen flick of any worth. Nice try folks and it's a valiant effort for a low budget film but in the end you have to ask - WHY BOTHER?