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Spotswood (1991)
Film captures the working and management class cultures
8 August 1999 - 18 out of 23 users found this review helpful.
As an American who lived in Australia for about 3 years, I found that this film captured a lot of "Australianisms" that are hard to pinpoint, but are definitely from the Australian culture and different than the US culture. Probably the most noticeable to me was the worker vs management mentality that is so much more exaggerated in Oz. One of the most ironic things I found about their culture was how much they protested that, unlike England, there was no class system down under. But, to me as an outsider it seemed very class driven but instead of upper and lower classes they were blue collar and white collar.
Overall a touching film which I always wonder how much is going right over the heads of Americans.
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