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Cut Snake
- Director: Tony Ayres
- Writer: Blake Ayshford
- Producer: Trevor Blainey; Brendan Campbell
CGiii Comment
Anyone with half a brain knows...men in prison 'play' with men in prison.
This 'play' is either a [temporary] symptom of the situation or it's a clearcut preference. Needs must versus what a hunk!
So, bearing this in mind, Cut Snake's big revelation is not exactly a surprise - head-nodding and thought sos reverberate...
What does come as a surprise: the hunk is a sensitive, brawling, bipolar psychopath...who is not adverse to flattening a man's head with his foot. But...melts in the presence of his [reformed] paramour.
Their backstory is revealed fleetingly - through flashbacks, blink (literally) and you'll miss them. Their future: what future? Can a psychopath have a future that doesn't involve a grizzily death or perpetual incarceration?
Alas, the predictability element is there from the very beginning...and, the ending has a head-on collision with melodrama - just a little too noir-ish to tick the satisfied box.
It's not a bad film - far from it...with a little TLC it could have ranked up there with Animal Kingdon & Snowtown.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell), an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. He has found honest work and even becomes engaged but the prospect of this new life is challenged when his foreboding and charismatic cell mate Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) tracks him down upon his own release. Sparra finds himself enigmatically drawn back toward a world and a man that he was certain he had wanted to leave behind.
Cast & Characters
Sullivan Stapleton as Pommie;
Jessica De Gouw as Paula;
Alex Russell as Sparra Farrell;
Megan Holloway as Yvonne;
Robert Morgan as Duck;
Paul Moder as Carl;
Jim Russell as Neil;
Richard Anastasios as Wayne;
Syd Brisbane as Ben;
Luke Elliot as Bruce