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Barky (Marty Denniss) and his two friends Wayne (Joel Edgerton) and Kane (Marin Mimica) arrive at Coppa’s place looking for Barky’s brother Wace. Trunny (Aaron Blabey) banters affectionately with Barky; Coppa (Andrew Wholley) is also glad to see him, but Wace (Hugh Jackman) is far less welcoming.
Curator’s notes
The film is a sort of compendium of the ways in which Australian men fail to communicate, and this scene offers a range of techniques, from Trunny’s ‘bash ‘em and kiss ‘em’ style, to Coppa’s ‘tough and cool’, to Wace’s downright hostile greeting of his brother, whom he hasn’t seen in over two years. The use of swearing in the film becomes a part of the emotional smokescreen. We don’t know much about any of these men at this stage, but the look Wace gives his brother when he stands in front of the drums, and the way that Barky looks out the window at this point tells us a lot about their fractured relationship.
