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Actors: Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Flirting |
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Danny Embling, an awkward and shy stutterer who is smarter than his peers, is sent to St. Albans, a private boarding school in southwest Australia, in 1965. Across a lake stands a girls school, where another outsider, Thandiwe Adjewa, whose mother was British and father a Ugandan, is a student. Both suffer at the hands of schoolmates and sadistic teachers, but they find each other. This 1991 film is an honest and lovely portrait of teen romance and boarding school life from writer-director John Duigan -- a followup to his 1987 film "The Year My Voice Broke," which depicted Danny three years younger. Nicole Kidman plays a sexually repressed senior who admires and helps out her younger and more independent classmate, shortly before she broke out as an international star.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Flirting |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- general coming of age story
Age group
- trouble in high school
Sexing?
- first sexual experience
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Australia
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
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