Toomelah Page #2

Synopsis: In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Ivan Sen
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
106 min
118 Views


Yeah. What's your

f***ing totem, bro?

F***ing emu, bro.

Emu?

Who the f*** taught you that?

My nana.

What would Nana know?

Now, what would she know?

Everything, cuz.

How would she know more than me?

Who told her that, then?

Jesus.

Jesus? What the...?

Who the f***...? Jesus who?

No, Jesus, everybody

knows Jesus.

Your f***ing totem cheap, man.

Sh*t. It's f***ing

Jesus, he reckons.

How the f*** can

Jesus know this?

Who talks to Jesus?

F*** Jesus.

Yeah, f*** Jesus,

that's what I said.

F*** Jesus.

Daniel, what's your

f***ing totem?

Daniel, what's your totem?

Yeah, f*** them. Now, say,

what's your f***ing totem?

Your f***ing ancestors never

told you that sh*t before.

F***, dead.

Daniel, you raising

the bong or what?

Daniel, you raising

the bong or what?

Nah.

Boys, Daniel tough as sh*t.

Yeah.

Yeah, he... Nah.

You have a f***ing problem

there or something?

Heard you've been

f***ing up at school.

How come you been

messing up, boy?

F*** around that school

bus or f***ing live here.

Don't laugh at me, man.

I'll f***ing drill you.

You know I'll do it, eh?

Be at school, mate, look like...

Learn.

Nothing like your old man,

good for nothing now.

It's the worst, I tell you.

Where you been?

Down there with the boys.

Come here.

Was you in the room smoking

yarndi with the boys?

Yeah.

You don't wanna be.

Don't look like that, you

look like your father.

Go inside and have some

soup on the stove.

I made it for aunt but

she went walkabout.

Little Daniel, where

are you going?

Nowhere.

Tanitia been looking for you.

What for?

I don't know, that's

your woman, ain't she?

Yeah.

Linden, your little

gangster friend is here.

Daniel, how's it going, bro?

Where you going?

Nowhere.

You know how to get

this made or what?

No.

What you...?

See? Just watch, man.

Use this there, bro.

You keep doing that for me, huh?

Put it in the bag.

I'm gonna make a cup of tea.

Daniel.

What?

How come you're hanging

around those fellas?

Because they're my friends.

Tyson said that that you

said that we was together.

Did you say it?

Nah.

Anyway, I'm going

with Tupac now.

What for?

I don't know.

Mr. Damien said that you

can come back to class

if you stop playing up.

Will you?

Daniel, are you gonna

stop playing up?

Anyway, I'm going to school now.

Uncle, how come she

always go down there?

That's where she used to live...

when she was a little girl.

Daniel.

Daniel, they want you, I think.

Ask them what they want.

What?

Tupac gonna fight you.

Who?

Tupac, you deaf c*nt.

Tupac?

Ask him what for?

What for?

He said you're a big

knob like your father,

and stay away from his woman.

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Ivan Sen

Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Australian indigenous filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer and sound designer. His work is both extensive and acclaimed in Australian circles.Drawing on his mixed heritage, his films present themes that revolve around issues of dislocation, place and identity. more…

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