Posted on 02/26/2020 5:15:09 PM PST by Ozguy1945
This film will challenge many and probably most viewers, because it simultaneously tells two initially similar stories at once. There are detailed instructions on the post of how to watch the movie three times to first get each story on its own and then see if you can handle them together.
One story come from the subtitles the other one comes from what the comic character Jim Cousens (played by me) says on screen.
I believe that this artistic device shows just how hard competing versions for the truth make it to work out what the truth is nowadays. Who agrees?
What do you think of Jim Cousens?
Is he too vulgar?
Is he funny?
No offence; no looky.
It would be nice if you were speaking a less twangy cringey version of English. More difficult to decipher than ebonics.
I’ve dated Aussie Sheilas,and not one of them would have come within a kookaburra’s call of your onscreen persona with that overwrought digger’s twang.
As for the “stories” well, I don’t know what you are trying to communicate here, but the message was lost in the untranslatable gibberish you put on screen and through the speakers.
You are aware that this is a News Discussion site, chiefly American politics centered, not a blog, correct?
Bookmark. sounds like an interesting exercise.
the movie does deal through humor, which is a free republic category, with issues of power and a national constitution
the many Australians who do talk like my comic character does are referred to as bogans (cf rednecks, deplorables)
Most Americans can understand a Crocodile-Dundee-dialect but this is nearly unintelligible. It's like hearing or reading Middle English. Yes, many words are recognizable but it takes work to understand the others.
A second issue is the idiosyncratic phrases and references to people involved.
In order to understand the joke, one would have to be familiar with all the history and background of the people and topics involved.
In a sense the joke is hopelessly lost in translation.
Best regards.
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