Directed by Rachel Perkins
Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.
Джаспер Джонс, 贾斯珀·琼斯, 재스퍼 존스, Джаспър Джоунс, 賈斯珀·瓊斯, ג'אספר ג'ונס
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"Who did you blame first?"
Jasper Jones asks it's audience to take a massive leap of faith in the first ten minutes, and that will either make or break the experience for you.
There was a surprising amount of plot about racism, xenophobia, abuse, adultery and suicide. Most of it is handled very maturely, and some is a little heavy handed. Eg. Cricket solves racism just like in The Water Diviner.
Levi Miller does a pretty good job for most of the runtime, giving us a nervous squeaky nerd who occasionally turns into a deeper voiced block of wood. Angourie Rice gives yet another charming performance, but her accent occasionally seems put on. Aaron McGrath is great as Jasper Jones…
angourie rice and levi miller are rising stars
FEMALE DIRECTED AUSTRALIAN CINEMA IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD
Saw the stage production of this which was much more entertaining and eerie. I just found the film to be a bit slow and didn’t connect with the characters straight away but it was still good.
another powerhouse ‘yelling mother’ performance by toni collette
man fuck the racists in the film like seriously they piss me off on a whole new level fuck racism
"This is Corrigan. Nobody will believe me."
Six AACTA nominations went to this Australian mystery drama based on the novel of the same name, as Jasper Jones deals with class, race, and gender in interesting yet typical ways, through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy in a fictional rural town.
For protagonist Charlie Bucktin, things get real dark real fast, as a mixed white/Aboriginal teen (the titular character) shows him the lifeless body of his girlfriend hanging from a tree, and after expressing innocence they conspire to hide the corpse. We're only 12 minutes into the film at this point, and tonally it's hard to know where the hell is going to go. It's a jarring opening.
And therefore every…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I liked it but wanted to see the dad burn alive.
Mum and I love this movie. We first watched it on a video ezy rent dvd. One of the reasons we love it so is because we had a dog called Jasper and we always said this was his movie and cause of Toni Collette 🫶
I remember I had to read the book in high school for English. We also had the writer come to our school and talk about it. I wasn’t as fond of reading as I am now (especially when it was school work) so this movie would’ve been super helpful if it came out a couple years before it did lol.
As for the film, it’s fine. It’s got some great acting, production design and cinematography. It’s a very faithful adaption of the source material but it approaches the novel in the lightest and safest way possible. I think would’ve preferred it if it went for the intensity or harsh nature of the book.
I like to support movies from where I’m from and Jasper Jones is a decent coming of age flick.
Beautifully filmed (some really gorgeous shots that would make great still photographs), funny and moving and great performances all round. Toni Collette is absolutely superb but everyone is great, really. Levi Miller is just lovely in the main role as Charlie - he's so perfect as this nerdy, sweet outcast. Angourie Rice is great, too, as are Aaron L. McGrath as Jasper Jones and Kevin Long as Jeffrey was a riot.
Racism, being an outsider, small-town boredom, are some of the themes explored and, while it's not the best film I've seen that looks at these things, it's thoroughly enjoyable.
Anyway, I can't seem to write about movies, any more, but I think it's really important to support Australian cinema at the theatres, if you can, especially Australian films directed by (Indigenous) women. So, go see it, please! (If it's even still out?)
It's a fairly heavy-handed but decent Australian film with a great (as always) performance by Toni Collette. That being said, I think there's definitely a need for more happy & hopeful Australian cinema.
