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Actors: Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sweetie |
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This movie, co-written and directed by Jane Campion (The Piano) in 1989, earned the Australian Academy award in the Best Original Screenplay category the same year.
Kay visits a fortune teller who tells her that she will soon meet the man of her life she will recognize thanks to a mark on his face. Fortunately, she does not wait for a long time because Louis, who has just become engaged to one of her colleagues, has this mark on the face. Kay convinces Louis that their love is predestined and the young man moves at once into the young woman's apartment.
The couple gets along well but Kay and Louis quickly give up sexual relations. One evening, they find in their apartment Kay's sister, Sweetie, who decided to come to say hello to her sister in company of her manager Bob. Sweetie, from her childhood on, has always been the preferred girl in the family, She vainly tried, since, to come through in the show business. Sweetie is fat and suffers apparently from a light mental disorder which is the cause of scenes of fury and hysteria that her family bears with philosophy.
Sweetie and Bob, to Kay's great despair and anger, do not want to leave the apartment. Moreover, their father Gordon also moves to Kay's after his separation with their mother Flo. Sweetie, Louis and Gordon decides to visit Flo who agrees to live again with Gordon. Sweetie, dumped by her manager Bob, moves to her parents's house but becomes increasingly uncontrollable. One day, she refuses to leave the hut built at the top of a tree in the garden and starts to scoff at her family, naked and covered with paint.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Sweetie |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love predicted in dream/fortune-telling
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- Full Frontal
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian (mate!)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- artist
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) fat
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Australia
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Country/Western
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