Blackrock

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Summary: Blackrock
Review: 1,000 words....um. lets see. Heath Ledger is amazing. He is hot and the story of this movie is great. If you like Heath and you want to see it, YOU HAVE TO SEE IT! Also when The Patriot comes out..get it.., anyway you have to see this movie.

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Summary: Black Day in Blackrock
Review: Based loosely on the rape and murder of Leigh Leigh in a small town outside Newcastle in Australia, Blackrock is extremely confronting. It is not a vehicle for stars but for a message. Laurence Breuls in the leading role of Jared is perfect- a mixture of vulnerability and misplaced mateship. As a member of a powerful Australian subculture, his performance articulates the compulsion of mates and surf and the consequent marginalisation of all who don't, (surf, that is). Simon Lyndon puts in a powerful performance as Ricko, the Australian Dream gone bad.
Blackrock is about many things. What it has almost nothing to do with is Heath Ledger. It was made to help adolescents understand that rape is always a crime and that mates aren't "all you've got ".

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Summary: Wonderful movie, though disturbing
Review: Blackrock IS a movie about rape and loyalty to one's mates vs telling the truth, but it treats the topic deftly, not justifying the events, but showing why they occured and the effect they have on the community. It is very disturbing, especially the rape scene, but its message is NOT "rape is okay" or anything remotely close to that. The reprehensibility of the rape/murder and of not doing/saying anything is clearly shown, and the realistic depictions of the characters help to explain how and why events happened as they did. Truth be told, most criminals are described afterwards as "the nicest person, last one you'd expect to do that". The storyline can be a little confusing, though this is most likely due to the re-editing of the film prior to (or poss. after) Sundance, which took out some of the intro which explained some of the dynamics between the teens. Laurence Breuls does an especially fantastic job as Jared. The scariest thing about the film is that I can actually see it happening in real life.

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Summary: Blackrock DvD
Review: Blackrock is a very powerful movie that can relate especially to teenagers and the troubles they can face. It is named Blackrock after the name of the town where a murder occurs on the beach. Jared is the main character and he is throwing a party for his best buddy, surf legend Ricko who has returned in town. However, when a girl is raped and murdered on the beach, Blackrock becomes a main site of publicity for the "Hoodlums" that live there. I bought this movie because I am a big fan of Heath Ledger and he plays a small role of the kid named Toby Ackland which he plays an also disturbing role of what I like to call "head rapist" This is a sad, but very touching film, and the soundtrack is awesome, I definatley recommend it to anyone who finds meaning out of movies as well as entertainment.

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Summary: Blackrock DvD
Review: Blackrock is a very powerful movie that can relate especially to teenagers and the troubles they can face. It is named Blackrock after the name of the town where a murder occurs on the beach. Jared is the main character and he is throwing a party for his best buddy, surf legend Ricko who has returned in town. However, when a girl is raped and murdered on the beach, Blackrock becomes a main site of publicity for the "Hoodlums" that live there. I bought this movie because I am a big fan of Heath Ledger and he plays a small role of the kid named Toby Ackland which he plays an also disturbing role of what I like to call "head rapist" This is a sad, but very touching film, and the soundtrack is awesome, I definatley recommend it to anyone who finds meaning out of movies as well as entertainment.

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Summary: meanings
Review: Blackrock was an excelent film it was a touching movie with out beening soppy. it is a powerful film which relates to a teenagers life and choices. the every day choices a teenager has to make, with every action there is a reaction. with every risk there can also come consercenses. this is clearly demintrates in one of the actors Laurence Breuls who played Jared, first demonstration was when jared surfed on the bonnet of a car while it drives around out on control with only a peice of rope to hold on to, that could of had consercenses. Secondly jared watching his mates rape a girl if he had acted, they might have reacted by running away. there are many meanings in this movie that are clearly shown i recommened that teenages watch this movie, even though it is not a new age movie it really makes you question your own morals.

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Summary: Heath is a God!
Review: How can I describe in a maximum of 1,000 words what has taken me a lifetime to understand? My love for Heath is unable to be measured on any scale known to man. He is my world, my true meaning for existing. His beauty makes me want to cry, to surrender my heart. He does things to me that no other has ever done before. I feel as if I am in comlete nirvana when I see his face. If only I could touch his...face...AHHH WHAT A MAN HE IS! And the movie was nice, too.

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Summary: I Have Never Seen The Movie Yet!
Review: I Have Never Seen This Movie Yet But I Heard That Aaron Carter Is In It For A Moment Playing A Surfer (Aaron Charles Carter The Singer) He Is A Good Surfer. But I'm Dont Wanna Get The DVD Untill I Know For Sure Its Him (Even Though I Heard About This In An Aaron Carter Mag.!)

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Summary: Shocking and thought provoking film
Review: I have watched Blackrock several times and consider it a very powerful film, which would be particularly good to use in high schools. ... I feel that over the course of the film Ricko's image as the "legend" and good guy is effectively torn away and he is revealed as being seriously warped morally. I found the scene where Ricko confesses his "reasons" for killing Tracy to be one of the most horrifying in the film, partly because it rang so true. People will use the most pathetic excuses to justify the crime of rape,and I feel the movie showed well the utter emptiness of these justifications. The movie also does not excuse Jared for his inaction in regards to the rape - but allows him the possibility to accept his guilt and try and make amends in whatever way he can. All the actors played their parts very well and came across as believable. As the central figure of Jared, Laurence Breuls was very convincing, showing his character's decline from fun-loving, fairly self-centred surfer boy to confused and guilt-stricken, his world tipped up around him. The extreme insensitivity Jared shows at several points in the movie makes his character not entirely sympathetic, but is necessary to show his uncertainty about where his loyalty should lie. Jared is no hero, he is basically a weak character, possessing a conscience but not the moral strength to act on it. He isn't meant to be a hero though, he's meant to be real, and the film shows his desire to do the right thing after Tracy's death, but confusion about what the right thing is. I think that an important theme of this film is how the culture in which people live can act on them to compromise their conscience in this way.

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Summary: Shocking and thought provoking film
Review: I have watched Blackrock several times and consider it a very powerful film, which would be particularly good to use in high schools. ... I feel that over the course of the film Ricko's image as the "legend" and good guy is effectively torn away and he is revealed as being seriously warped morally. I found the scene where Ricko confesses his "reasons" for killing Tracy to be one of the most horrifying in the film, partly because it rang so true. People will use the most pathetic excuses to justify the crime of rape,and I feel the movie showed well the utter emptiness of these justifications. The movie also does not excuse Jared for his inaction in regards to the rape - but allows him the possibility to accept his guilt and try and make amends in whatever way he can. All the actors played their parts very well and came across as believable. As the central figure of Jared, Laurence Breuls was very convincing, showing his character's decline from fun-loving, fairly self-centred surfer boy to confused and guilt-stricken, his world tipped up around him. The extreme insensitivity Jared shows at several points in the movie makes his character not entirely sympathetic, but is necessary to show his uncertainty about where his loyalty should lie. Jared is no hero, he is basically a weak character, possessing a conscience but not the moral strength to act on it. He isn't meant to be a hero though, he's meant to be real, and the film shows his desire to do the right thing after Tracy's death, but confusion about what the right thing is. I think that an important theme of this film is how the culture in which people live can act on them to compromise their conscience in this way.