we're a weird mob
I've been watching another iconically curious little Australian film recently, They're a Weird Mob , which dates back to 1966 and was filmed on location in Sydney during the summer of 1965/66. As that date-dial wenched into 1966 my brother was about to turn 8 and my sister was 11 years old. I was nowhere in the picture, in this physical body. I was merely a potential at this stage, and being a potential, I could have landed anywhere. Instead I landed in Sydney in 1970 where, 40+ years on, I still find myself living. The film itself is not wonderful. It's hokey and dated and the plot itself is stilted, a little too make-believe, being much like the plot of a musical without the film actually being a musical. It's a pithily enjoyable film to watch nevertheless, both as a period-piece and for the sense of innocence conveyed in the film, particularly for its comic innocence. The romantic plot is quite conservatively portrayed, particularly wh...