There needs to be more discussion around 'is this movie bad, or was it just not made for you?'

Watching someone critquie Lake Mungo having absolutely no understanding that it's based on a specific kind of Australia documentary making with certain beats but they've just gone THIS IS SO BAD, WHY DOES IT DO THIS

And it's not bad, it's actually acclaimed over here because it knew exactly what it was doing.

It knew just how to frame itself to get under our skin. Australians.

...out of curiosity, what were the certain beats? cuz i love that movie but definitely don't know shit about australian media.

i wish i could say it surprises me that people are being like this. it seems to be a general attitude, actually, with story telling, but now i'm also deeply fascinated and want to know more about lake mungo specifically

Lake Mungo apes the Australian style of biopic documentary films.

(as an aside, I saw a lot of this about Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Road to Paloma and a lot of other indigenous films, with people being like "It's bad [because I don't get it]" which is such an unfortunate way to approach ANY media)

lake mungo also keeps me up at night and imma fight anyone that says it's bad
I can entirely see it not being for certain people and agree with this entirely, not all movies/things you dislike are bad because they dont line up with your specific tastes

not to say there arent bad things out there and bad things shouldn't be critiqued, but "I dont like it" isnt the universal decider on quality

and shouldnt be

Basically we have these kinds of Australian doccos that are this slow paced, intimate, close filmed TV shows, they were aired in the mid afternoon and they are meant to focus on average Australians telling their individual stories.

This one specific one it closely resembles is called Australian Story.

They often have slow pans of nature or suburban areas where the people are, the land itself is always a weird secondary character for Aussies don't ask me why, but - yeah

For Australians it hits real hard because Lake Mungo is framed in such a way that it could be one more episode we missed.

We also understate a lot, when we tell stories of families in pain or lasting impacts of events, you won't get high emotive declarations, we find that sort of thing jarring, and has to be swallowed in little amounts, because life is hard for Aussies in a general sense we don't like to be over the top about it.

see if we only ever have media by and for straight white american men then we won't have this problem

anything not made for straight white american men is bad, lily, it's simple

Incredible

ȡ𝓲𝘴ą𝘴𝓽є𝓻 : 𝖒𝖆𝖑 : I hope that helps explain it a little!!

Which I think makes people find it very slow paced and dull, because it's very ambling and drawn out, nothing HAPPENS AT ONCE because when we tell stories its more like a slow ramble

(also i find its what when people do like it, they like the most! It doesn't shove the horror in your face and I think that's what makes it more sinister for some people)

oh man i wanna watch this now

this movie sounds super interesting. I'm not much for horror movies but might have to give this one a shot

It's very UHHH harrowing in a different sense than something overtly spooky

But it's about a small town family that loses one of their children and it's overtly about them processing that grief but also then the sense the person never left.

it does. and from what i know of lake mungo - always good things, actually - it makes sense they'd use that format because it's a deeply tragic story