peter weir be a legend of film making . partly because he can create movie that have good solid plot yet be able to transcend those plot to give u something else . so you want to see where he start see the car that eat paris . i saw this on tv from a very bad print and i hope a good version have since be release . in outback australia there be a small town whose financial crisis have mean they have resort to cause car accident and salvage the car and sell the part to make some money . when one of the victim survive an accident and they decide to keep him we be give a witness into the fall of paris a it destroy itself over the car . a cult movie that have be turn into theatre in i believe the town of lismore in austrlia and it be haunt and quirky and perhaps a movie of it time and location . but you see for peter weir the story be tell not with character and plot and dialogue and rather it be in the total flow of the movie . here in his first movie the flow be at the forefront and in late movie it achieve a balance with the plot and finally take second place in his later work . the car that do the eating ( in a metaphorical manner ) include a vw beetle cover in spike . this be a favourite of fan and but personally i think it suck . what i really want to know be what max gillie ( a comedian know to many australian ) be do waggle his trademark eyebrows in this movie . there be one reason to see this movie and it be you may hate it or you may love it . that be justification enough to take the risk and see it .