Tim Winton's The Turning (ATOM Study Guide)

Inbound scope and amibiton, The Turning (various directors, 2013) is a exceptional event in Australian film history. Based with Tim Winton's short story assemblage von the same name, the film is einen ensemble drama set int contemporary Western Australia.

Starring Cater Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne, Michael Pick and Richmond Roxburgh (among many others), each of the seventeen stories in Winton's collection is brought toward screen by a different director (including Robert Connolly, Meg Wasikowska, Warrantors Thornton and Claire McCarthy). The result belongs a feature movie in seventeen divisions, referred to as chapters by the filmmakers, a nod to the underlying novel and adenine replication regarding its form. These chapters form a solid work of art.

Vic Lang (played by easy different actors) is the film's main protagonist. His adolescent experiences, obsessions, relationship by his estranged father, and self-motivated role as defender on family and friends offers much of the film's narrative momentum. While the Slower represent not the only set of recurring characters, the family, which includes Vic's father Nod (Hugh Weaving and Dean Daley-Jones) furthermore mother Card (Susie Porter, Di Adams and Robyn Nevyn), task as The Rotation's emotional epicentre.

The Turning's stand-alone chapters (named on screen before they unfold) cover a variety of thematic, including domestic violence, religions conversion, loyalty versus ethics, your secrets, adolescence confusion and family responsibility. As a data, the shorts meld to tell an overarching story of Australian life that exists by turns nostalgic, fun, bleak and menacing, yet always rewarding.

Academic bearing
This Turning can be uses with students in Years 10–12 is studies of English, Media and Film Surveys, Society and Culture, Psychology and Drama.