{"id":606111,"date":"2024-01-25T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-mild-mannered-punk-nostalgia-trip\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:20:00","slug":"watch-a-mild-mannered-punk-nostalgia-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-mild-mannered-punk-nostalgia-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Mild-Mannered Punk Nostalgia Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ed5698c624\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ed5698c624\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-mild-mannered-punk-nostalgia-trip\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Mild-Mannered_Punk_Nostalgia_Trip%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Mild-Mannered Punk Nostalgia Trip&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-mild-mannered-punk-nostalgia-trip\/#%E2%80%9CA_Mild-Mannered_Punk_Nostalgia_Trip%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Mild-Mannered Punk Nostalgia Trip&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Mild-Mannered_Punk_Nostalgia_Trip%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Mild-Mannered Punk Nostalgia Trip&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Mild-Mannered_Punk_Nostalgia_Trip%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Mild-Mannered Punk Nostalgia Trip&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Joining a long line of filmmakers who\u2019ve fictionalized their comings-of-age in one regional punk scene or another, veteran New Zealand writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie turns the clock back to 1979 Christchurch in \u201cHead South.\u201d Its protagonist is the classic shy but would-be rebellious teen boy dared into starting his own band, whose first gig naturally provides an underdogs-triumphant climax. Pleasant but awfully thin, feeling like a short insufficiently fleshed out to feature length, this modest nostalgic exercise provides a lightweight opener to this year\u2019s Rotterdam fest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Angus (Ed Oxenbould) is a high-schooler intrigued by new U.K. sounds as yet little-heard hereabouts \u2014though he can barely summon the courage to enter Middle Earth Records, where proprietor Fraser (Jackson Bliss) is the obvious go-to source for such breaking intel. Even more intimidatingly cool is mysterious Holly (Roxie Mohebbi), a Debbie Harry-esque bottle-blonde bombshell who claims to be from London. Amongst his own, younger age group, Angus has just succeeded in alienating best mates Jamie (Trendall Pulini) and Stuart (Oscar Phillips) by selling them oregano masquerading as pot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On the home front, things are equally unsettled: Our hero comes home one day to find his mother has inexplicably vacated the premises for a two-week motel stay, leaving behind a cryptic note and a fortnight\u2019s worth of precooked dinners. This leaves him with dad Gordon (Marton Csokas), a civil engineer whose staid qualities and drinking habits presumably drove her away. It\u2019s an uneasy atmosphere brightened when Angus\u2019 older brother, at college in England, mails a care package including the first single by Public Image Ltd. \u2014 John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten\u2019s post-Sex Pistols band. When Angus hears it (the still-exhilarating \u201cPublic Image\u201d), the impact is such that the screen image goes from Academy ratio to wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Surprisingly, though, \u201cHead South\u201d has few such moments that channel the dynamism of punk music or the combustive energy of its early fans. It\u2019s mostly a soft seriocomedy with tepid humor and underdeveloped conflicts. Even after he cuts his shaggy hair to spiky brevity, then gets encouraged (by Fraser) and bullied (by Demos Murphy\u2019s note-perfect local Rotten poseur Malcolm) into starting a band with knowing chemist-shop clerk Kirsten (Stella Bennett), Angus remains a wide-eyed naif. We never gain much insight into his parents\u2019 marital woes, or Holly\u2019s murky travails with surly Andy (Arlo Gibson), who might be her pusher or pimp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When the fadeout abruptly brings tragedy into this picture \u2014 a turn torn from real-life experience, as evidenced by closing dedication text \u2014 its force is muffled by the fact that the film has done almost nothing prior to mine character depths or stir our own deeper emotions. What ought to play as a sobering slap in the face after a wild ride instead comes off as an incongruous tonal shift interrupting exceedingly restrained hijinks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Which is not to say \u201cHead South\u201d (whose title song, as well as another played by Angus\u2019 band, was written by the director himself) isn\u2019t enjoyable within its limitations. Most of the performances are expert, even if we wait in vain for the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> to give them more to chew on. Csokas fares best with the thin material, lending Gordon a sly edge that suggests he\u2019s got more dimensions than he or the movie care to reveal. There\u2019s some good music heard, if not as much as one might expect \u2014 particularly given that the original score is from Shayne Carter of the great late-\u201980s\/early-\u201990s New Zealand post-punk band Straitjacket Fits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Ogilvie actually made music videos for acts on that outfit\u2019s influential label Flying Nun Records in the 1980s. He applies various retro techniques to make the film look like an artefact from back then, including jump cuts, fisheye lenses, light flares, signs of faux film-stock distress, and so on. But these quasi-rough stylistic tropes tend to underline what the feature never quite achieves: approximation of the messy exuberance that made punk attractive in the first place. It\u2019s a strangely mild-mannered, small-caps tribute to a movement that was more inclined to loudly (as a Bible-borrowed 1986 Nick Cave album title put it) kick against the pricks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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