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Show of Hands
Saw it at the Hawaii International Film Festival last night. My husband and I both loved the movie!! :) It was just great.
Awesome Kiwi Movie
Saw this at Hawaii film festival also and loved it
I'm In It But Not Seen It
I am so gutted I will miss my first (and maybe only) ever movie premier in a couple of weeks in NZ.
I now live in Sydney so can't make it and don't know when Sydney will ever get the movie over here.
I'm glad you guys liked it, thats awesome.
I hope my bright green top and pink uggboots didn't distract you from my brilliant dramatic acting hahahaha.
go see this movie
I love going to NZ films and this is one of the good ones ,nice twist and I don't want to say any more,go see it
New Zealand comes of age! You MUST see this film
I saw this film expecting cutesy Kiwiana like Second Hand Wedding or Number 7, or even We're here to help you. Couldn't have been more wrong. There is a real story, well developed and with a couple of unexpected twists in the plot, right up until the end. True, there was also the expected romantic "odd couple" happy ending, but that was fun too. Brilliantly casted and acted, and ultimately, convincing. This really compares with the best of other major film producing countries' work. Should definitely get an award for "Best Foreign Film" somewhere like Cannes
I wish I could have the time I spent in the cinema back
Show of Hands is what could come the closest to cinematic torture.
It's weak, the music is either childish or stereotypically classical (i'm amazed they didn't use the Winter part of the Four "national Bank" seasons).
Sometimes it looks like it's been shot on mini dv - and i'm not talking about the bits that pretend to be shot on mini dv.
The story is boring, the characters are stereotypes after stereotypes: the fat polynesian, the old and wise dude (well, actually not that wise or he would not have stopped taking his pills for the contest, but finally we can cry), the young arrogant, the New Plymouth blonde tart, etc etc.
This is probably the worst kiwi movie i've ever seen.
It looks like a tv film. The scene flow is clumsy.
Unlike anything else
Show of Hands is one of the best films that I have ever seen. It was brilliantly filmed, and with a very unique storyline. I especially liked the character of Tom: his deep cynicism and bitterness towards shallow people made him unlike any other character in any text that I have come across before. I greatly appreciated this, and thought the subtle resolution at the end was particularly well done.
They shoot horses don't they?
In my mind, the film is a modern adaptation of "They shoot horses don't they?" replacing the dance marathon with a standing marathon. This isn't a bad thing the orriginal was a classic. Similar features abound: hallucinations from sleep deprivation, short lived romances, recession driven needs. I wonder If the author of this screen play had been influenced by the classic?
Show of Hands
I live near in New Plymouth and was amazed to see some of the places I usually go past. CC Ward, where my mum and neighbour goes shopping for clothes,
Snax in the city (a dairy in Down Town New Plymouth)and parts of Centre City, a shopping centre in Central
New Plymouth. I'm glad that this movie showed a bit of Taranaki!
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