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Relating to silly moments, like spraying perfume under her underwear just in case the guy wants to ‘screw’, writing down questions to ask the boyfriend in case he calls and wants you to make conversation, and using Vaseline as lubricant but “it’s still too big”. This movie, as many have noted, is not exactly an example of great film making. The film is based on the 1979 novel Puberty Blues, by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel about two 15-year-old girls from the middle class Sutherland Shire in Sydney. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. R
Puberty Blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 year-old best friends, raised in the beach city of Cronulla in The Sutherland Shire of south Sydney. In the early 1970s, the middle baby boomers were coming into their adolescence and early adulthood. The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney. Essentially wanting to surf but aren’t allowed to by the boys, saying “chicks can’t surf”, and telling them to get their own Chico role.
However the dialogue – use of words, names and lingo are comedic, such as the over use of the term “mole” – “rack off mole”, “fish face mole”, and “let’s screw mole”, making you cringe at every sentence that comes out of their mouths. Kathy Lette (based on the novel by),
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The means of creative expression: design education for town and country New South Wales in the 1940s. All the boys care about is sex and surfing, nothing else. Ordering the girls to get them lunch, if they weren’t watching them surf they were in trouble, and forcing the girl to have sex with them, and yet the girls think the world of them. Puberty Blues S01e01. The most horrific and disgraceful scene is when a defenceless girl named Freda (Tina Robinson), who is considered a ‘mole’ in the teens terminology, is conned into having sex with three boys who argue over who goes first in the back of the van, basically rapeing her. 0:49. Things slowly change when Debbie gets ‘dropped’ and her and Susan begin to stick up for themselves.
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Freda is then thrown out of the van when they are done. It goes over well because of it's camp value. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Puberty Blues (1981) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Puberty Blues presents a warts-and-all portrait of surfie subculture in the 1970s for both girls and boys. ( Log Out / I originally rented this movie several years ago when I was in college, mainly because it was in the "foreign film" section. Feedback | After getting over the shock of how bad the dialouge was, I started to enjoy it. For webmasters, COPYRIGHT 2008 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES).
Frieda is a friendless and "uncool" character,who is taken advantage of and used for sex regularly by many boys involved with the "Greenhill gang".
( Log Out / What? When Debbie meets Bruce, an egotistic dumb blonde surfy, all they do is kiss upon meeting and suddenly they are boyfriend and girlfriend. Change ). Debbie's hair changes length throughout the film. Report. But all Bruce cares about is having sex with her in the back on his Panel Van, but proves to be difficult due to physical issues. Clean Sweep For ‘The Sapphires’ At Australian Academy Awards, 04 December 2012
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| The original age of the girls in the book on which the film is based was 13, but Beresford had to raise their ages to 16 in the film because of the risque material depicted. 30 January 2013
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Nell Schofield once said in an interview that “It’s a very honest and realistic movie.”. In America "teenagerdom" had come into its own in the sixties.
Puberty Blues is a 1981 Australian coming-of-age film directed by Bruce Beresford. | Uncredited, the daughter of director Bruce Beresford, as one of the high school girls. Browse more videos. Unless you are of that era and understand that so called ‘culture’, you would be just reminiscing on the appalling good times of being an 80s teenagers. Lady Gaga brands Michael Polansky the 'love of her life' … Series. Privacy policy | Follow.