Don't be a Plum

I saw this film which is based in Australia. It’s another film that doesn’t really have a lot happening on the outside, but it has a lot happening on the inside of the characters. I’m really interested in those kinds of films at the moment.

There is a man named Gordon who lives in a kind of I guess tenement with all these people who don’t have much money. At the beginning of the film, he works as a gas station attendant, but he quits his job, so he isn’t really working throughout the film. He has asthma, but he smokes a lot, which tells you something about his personality and what he thinks of himself.

So he meets this woman named Cynthia and they start dating. She used to work at the gas station and she has eczema and she is a heavy drinker and smoker and she is addicted to sex and I think she has low self esteem too.

At first, they really got on. They date, and move in together, and then she gets pregnant and has to have an abortion, then they start fighting more and more, then he sees another girl he likes more, and then he wants her to leave, so she leaves him. That’s the whole plot of the movie.

What I like about the movie is that it really shows all the different emotions that they go through, and you can relate ( I can’t relate to everything but some of the stuff I could). Because you can relate to it you don’t need car chases or gunfights or explosions. I would recommend this movie because they seem dysfunctional but then you realise just how much like you and your friends and your family the characters are.

Plum

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