The Australian retooling of Neil Forsyth’s excellent Guilt sees a brother and sister deal with the aftermath of accidentally killing a stranger. It’s a fast-paced, impressive ride
Just do what your elder sister tells you. That’s all there really is to leading an easy life. As a senior female sibling myself, this has always been my belief and now, as a viewer of Australian comedy-drama-caper-thriller Reckless, I can report it as absolute fact.
I mean – first things first. Ideally, do not hit a pedestrian out walking late at night in his pyjamas while you’re driving under the influence of a joint you smoked at a family wedding, as record shop owner Charlie (Hunter Page-Lochard) does. But if you do, and if the older sister you are taking home tells you to keep driving – well, at least give it some consideration? Especially before you get your fingerprints all over the corpse’s wallet and start dragging him out of the road in front of his neighbours’ houses, then putting him back into his home. And if you do do all that, at least start listening to her thereafter. Follow her lead, after she finds a letter in the dead man’s house about the terminal cancer he was suffering from, in thinking that you just saved him months of agony, then go about the rest of your life with your mouth shut.
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John from Brisbane has added a photo to the pool:
Things will be a bit on and off for me (on as much as possible!), for the rest of September as I head into a some medical attention. On the other hand, just sitting on the hill at Burleigh Heads on Queensland's Gold Coast would be sure to revive mind and body - I wish!
When we dropped down here briefly last week, the normally great surfing conditions were unusually becalmed and the usual board riders were few and just lolled about on six inch ripples (no pipes).
This view looks north to the Broadbeach through to Surfers Paradise both marked by the high rise in the distance. The sea here is all Pacific Ocean with its spectacular beaches although some are still recovering from erosion caused during several adverse weather events last summer. Beyond Surfers not visible here is the conurbation of Southport with its Broadwater and Nerang River from which the southern end of Moreton Bay and South Stradbroke Island kick in. And behind me, the Gold Coast eventually merges into the Tweed Coast south of the Qld/New South Wales border and its delightful Northern Rivers area.
I sound like (and am) a great ambassador for my state (and country too), so forgive me waffling on. The GLink or Gold Coast Tram has just opened to this location at Burleigh Heads after a few years work on the extension. For the vast sum of 50 cents you can catch a train in Brisbane and hop off at Helensvale, change to the tram and sit back and let the Gold Coast roll by. And then walk up the hill to this view.
Sadly (in my opinion), local opposition from homeowners and businesses because of disruption during construction will mean this is where the tram line ends permanently and it will not now be extended to Coolangatta airport which was the plan. It will now become a "fast" bus connection, not that there isn't really a slow one already! Maybe one day either the tram or indeed the train will reach the border again from where it retreated in 1960. More great foresight.
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Entre luces, sombras y un fondo desenfocado, estas pequeñas siluetas en movimiento crean una escena simple, pero llena de misterio.