Backsliding (film)

Backsliding is a 1992 Australian film starring Tim Roth.

Backsliding
Directed bySimon Target
StarringTim Roth
Odile Le Clezio
Jim Holt
Distributed byElectric Pictures (UK)
Release date
1992
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$2.3 million[1]
Box officeA$5,054 (Australia)[2]

Production

Documentary filmmaker Simon Target got the idea of making the film when he was stuck in a property in far west Queensland for two weeks waiting for the mail plane to take him home. The manager of the property took a dislike to his Englishness and chased him around with a rifle in a game he called "hunt the Pom".[1]

The film was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation, Film Four International and Itel. The director was helped in raising funds by his brother, who worked in film finance in London. It was shot in South Australia with filming completed by December 1990.

Plot

While in prison, Jack had two momentous experiences: he got religion, and met the woman who would become his wife. He and Alison are devoted to the idea of staying in God's good graces, so they have moved to a remote power station in central Australia, far from anywhere. Into this possibly idyllic arrangement comes a rootless young man who the power company has hired on to be the station's handyman. Tensions escalate between the men as their conflicting values rub up against one another[1]

gollark: Maybe faster healing somehow, but good luck finding genes for that.
gollark: But most war is not actually melee combat now.
gollark: Obviously you can probably do... bigger muscles, or something, just remove myostatin, but I don't think that's very useful in modern warfare.
gollark: How would you actually do that? What traits would make soldiers significantly better, and are actually mostly genetic (and easily editable)?
gollark: I think that would imply that you actually mix the genes (and fairly evenly).

References
  1. Mark Chipperfield, "Backsliding", Cinema Papers, March 1991 p32-33
  2. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 3 October 2012


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