Lucky Miles is a 2007 Australian drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Australia illegally along the continent's coastline. It portrays the environment and landscape, the people and accurate stereotypes about Australians.
A desperate group of refugees are dumped on the West coast Australian by smugglers. It sounds like the perfect story of misery, instead Lucky Miles is a tragic comedy. The audience at the 2016 Film Festival would have a ball watching it with the ups and downs leaves you interested at every corner and step of the journey and it should be shown as the festival.
The cast of characters was well picked by Michael Rowland and Helen Barnes. The injustice and suffering displayed in …show more content…
Throughout the movie the main setting is the heart of Australia. The deserts, not that all of Australia is desert but it shows the realism that even in the middle of nowhere there is a pub in true Aussie style. The Australian Outback also shows off that there is kilometres of nothingness whether there just be sand, small shrubs, a small old shack and people who live out there. Throughout this film the temperature is mentioned because as is known of Australia it is a hot country. Whether it be dry stinking heat or humidity that’s why when the three men came across the water hole they were relieved to be out of the …show more content…
This movies brings to surface some of the real life hardships asylum seekers go through just to get away from their own country and how they venture across Australia to find a new home. The portrayal of Australia and some of its key features like landscape and environment is extremely accurate, the people who live in Australia and how it dismantles the stereotypes put in place but foreign countries. These are just three things that make Lucky Miles a terrific movie and that why it should be in the 2016 Australian film festival because of its intense