i remember see this when it be release and in a theater in palo alto and and not expect much . i mean an australian movie . but it finally get to me . here a scene . richard chamberlain be sit cross legged on the floor of a shabby apartment in sidney and face an australian aborigine elder name charlie . chamberlain represent you be outside my house last night . you frighten my wife . who be you . and charlie at a deliberate pace reply and who be you . who be you . who be you . who be you . who be you . . . . be you a fish . be you a snake . be you a man . . . . . who be you . who be you . who be you . it a stunning scene and shot all in close ups and with chamberlain blandly handsome face fill the screen in opposition to charlie black and broad nose and beard visage . the two guy couldn not be more different and this film be the story of how chamberlain accidentally stumble from his humdrum lawyerly existence into the inexplicable and almost unspeakable and mystery of charlie world . i do not think i will go on much about the plot . it kind of an apocalyptic tale . but i must say and whoever do the research on australian aboriginal belief system should get an a plus . they have get everything in here and from point the bone to the dream time and a kind of parallel universe in which dream be real . it an extremely spooky movie without any musical sting or splendiferous special effect . charly world simply begin to intrude into chamberlain dream and for reason never make entirely clear . if there a problem with the script and that it . nothing be ever make entirely clear . do chamberlain and who seem to have some extraordinary rapport with the aborigine and die in the last wave . do the aborigine . do the entirety of sidney . the basic premise be a little hard to accept too and though grant that this be a fantasy . the aborigine be invest with the kind of spiritual power that americans bestow on american indian and whereas the fact be that mythology be mythology and while one may be more complex or satisfy more elegant and beautiful and if you like mythology be still an attempt to transcend an ordinary and demanding and and sometimes disappointing physical existence . the mysticism of charlie be more convincing that the miracle of moses in cecil b. demille the ten commandment and but theyre brother under the skin . but i do not care about that . take a a film and this one be pretty good and and it especially important for mark the celebrity of the director and peter weir and and the australian film industry . this be the first of a great wave of film from the antipode and some of them raucous and like mad max and and some subtle and dramatic and like lantana . i like weir stuff and which resemble nicholas roeg in be pregnant with subliminal dread . try picnic at hang rock for an example of how to make a truly chill movie with not a drop of blood .