#60: The Castle – White guilt as cultural understanding
Part of the Aussie culture is a very ingrained want to stay
the hell away from itself. It’s a weird side effect of just how little of a
fuck we collectively give, but cultural cringe plays a large part in the
national mindset. It also plays a large part into what makes this film so good,
as a lot of it banks on lovingly ribbing the white Aussie middle-class,
exposing it as being far less sophisticated than it thinks it is. The people
who see seasoning on chicken as something exotic, and plastic faux-French
housing decorations as the height of class.
