It didn’t take long after watching Jub Clerc’s Sweet As to see the comparison point my mind went to first (The Breakfast Club) was hardly an original thought. It’s an archetypal coming-of-age story for a reason. You see a mixed-bag group of troubled teens forced to confront their hardships during a mandated supervised excursion and allusions to John Hughes’ classic aren’t far behind. Whereas he could get away with making that group consist of white suburban kids with differing degrees of entitlement and affluence, however, today’s landscape needs a bit more complexity beyond chip-on-your-shoulder bullying. By setting their film in the Australian Outback, Clerc and co-writer Steve Rodgers talk about race, poverty, and exploitation atop that superficial baseline. Because these kids aren’t confronting privilege. They’re struggling to survive.
There’s a reason Murra (Shantae Barnes-Cowan) comes home and pushes her cabinet in front of her room’s door.
There’s a reason Murra (Shantae Barnes-Cowan) comes home and pushes her cabinet in front of her room’s door.
- 9/11/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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