The Turning Page #2

Synopsis: The Turning explores the impact of past on present, how the seemingly random incidents that change and shape us can never be escaped or let go of. All of the stories are bound together by recurring themes; the passing of time, regret, addiction and obsession.
Genre: Drama
Production: Madman Entertainment
  6 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
2013
180 min
Website
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back there.

I slowly understand why.

There's the obvious thing,

of course -

the fact that he's in with a big

chance with Meg come nightfall.

But something else -

the thing that eats at me -

is the way he's enjoying

being brighter than her,

being a step ahead.

Feeling somehow senior

and secure in himself.

It's me all over.

It's how I am with him.

And it's not pretty.

The kombi fills up

with smoke again.

But this time

it's bitter and metallic

and I understand we're on fire.

Without an extinguisher,

there's not much we can do,

once we're standing out there

in the litter of our belongings,

waiting for the VW to explode.

But it just smoulders

and hisses awhile

as the sun sinks behind us.

In the end,

with the smoke almost gone

and the wiring cooked,

it's obvious

we're not going anywhere.

We turn our attention

to the sunset.

Meg rolls another spliff.

We don't say anything.

The sun flattens itself against

the salt pan and disappears.

The sky goes all acid-blue

and there's

just this huge silence.

It's like the world's stopped.

Right then, I can't imagine

an end to the quiet.

The horizon fades.

Everything looks

impossibly far off.

In two hours, I'll hear Biggie

and Meg in his sleeping bag.

She'll cry out like a bird

and become so beautiful,

so desirable in the total dark

that I'll begin to cry.

In a week,

Biggie and Meg

will blow me off in Broome

and I'll be on the bus south

for a second chance

at the exams.

In a year,

Biggie will be dead in a

mining accident in the Pilbara

and I'll be reading

Robert Louis Stevenson

at his funeral.

Meg won't show.

I'll grow up

and have a family of my own

and see Briony Nevis,

Tired and lined

in a supermarket queue

and wonder

what all the fuss was about.

All of it unimaginable.

Right now, standing with Biggie

on the salt lake at sunset,

I don't care what happens

beyond this moment.

In the hot, northern dusk,

the world

suddenly gets big around us,

so big we just give in and...

...watch.

Eeniee, meenie, minie...

..moe.

Arggh!

Oh, argh.

..was not presented

by the May 31st deadline,

then more industrial action

will be taken.

Now in a bit of the macabre,

in the seaside town of Angelus,

a gruesome discovery

was made this afternoon.

Just behind the sand dunes

in Angelus' Madison Gully,

two boys playing at the site

of a new housing development

on reclaimed swampland

made the grisly discovery

of human bones.

So far, two femurs

and a skull have been recovered.

Police have

cordoned off the site

and a broad search is under way

throughout the area.

Police are yet to make

identification of the bones

but believe

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Justin Monjo

Justin Monjo (born 1963, New York) is an American screenwriter, television producer, and actor, best known for his work on Farscape and penning the Farscape movie in 2014. He is the son of children's author F. N. Monjo III and the great-great-grandson of arctic furrier F. N. Monjo. Monjo wrote Adrian Pasdar's film debut screenplay Cement and worked on Young Lions. He created the 2005 TV series The Alice with Robyn Sinclair. He graduated from NIDA in 1985, alongside actresses Catherine McClements and Sonia Todd, and director Baz Luhrmann. His adaptation with his former NIDA teacher Nick Enright of Cloudstreet by Tim Winton enjoyed huge critical and box-office success at the Festivals of Sydney and Perth, on tour of Australia, at the Festival of Dublin, and in London. more…

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