Australian Film Checklist

• a small town
• a family with a dark secret
• a young woman on the cusp of her sexuality
• a shotgun
• an Australian actor returned from Hollywood with a beard
• a car crash
• elliptical flashbacks
• a central female character who is missing/dead from the start
• a mystical Aboriginal character
• alcoholism/addiction
• menacing masculinity
• a party on the beach
• an abstract antagonist (e.g. “guilt”)