Австралийский кинематограф: трансформация проблем молодежи в ходе времени

Abstract

Long ago, Australian filmmakers discovered that it was the issues
of universal interest that could ensure worldwide success of their films. One of
such issues was the leftwing youth protests expressing the unwillingness of the
young people to live according to the rules of the older generation. These protests
peaked in the late 1960s and immediately found their way onto the screen. The
importance of the problem ensured an almost inevitable international success
of the films which dealt with those events.
Yet there was another reason for the close attention paid by Australian
filmmakers to the May 1968 events. Many of them (including the authors of
the analyzed films) matured during those tempestuous years. Like many young
people in Europe, they were fed up with the hypocrisy and lies of the older
generation. They wanted to believe that changes were about to come. What
interests the filmmakers of today is not so much the leftist movement itself
or the revolt of the young against the society of their fathers but the results
which transpired twenty years after the events, following the disillusionment
and the shipwreck of youthful hopes. Some found solace in conformism and
indifference, others in despair and nihilism.
But luckily the filmmakers saw a third path: that of love and care for the
destitute; and, by consequence, that of the belief in the coming changes for the
better