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With no money for petrol, Jack (Bill Hunter) works an old trick on a country petrol station owner. Uncle Joe (Zac Martin) acts as decoy and almost gets shot.
Curator’s notes
The film attempts to be a modern Australian outlaw movie, as well as a road movie and a film about race relations. Part of its theme is the question of whether the poor, the dispossessed, the downtrodden have some kind of an automatic solidarity with each other, no matter what their colour. The film’s answer is, probably not – although by the end, a kind of friendship has developed between Jack and Gary – although not between Anna and the other men. Her friendship with the hitchhiking Frenchman is brought to an abrupt end by Jack, when he throws him out of the car. The outlaw theme meant that the bloodshed at the end, where Uncle Joe kills a stranger, and Gary is killed by cops, was almost inevitable.
