Based on the horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown\, Aust ralia in 1999\, where police found dismembered bodies rotting in barrels\, "\;The Snowtown Murders\,"\; which marks Justin Kurzel's directoria l debut is a stark journey into the feral subculture of welfare dependence\ , addiction\, domestic violence\, brutality and sexual abuse.
\nEliz abeth Harvey (Louise Harris) is raising her three boys in Adelaide's poor n orthern suburbs. After her latest boyfriend displays pedophilic tendencies she takes up with a new man\, hoping for security but instead winds up welc oming an even more vicious predator into her home.
\nJohn Bunting (D aniel Henshall) is the moral compass among a circle of friends who hold sel f-appointed neighborhood watch meetings at the kitchen table. Fueled by cig arettes and beer they cast judgments on those living around them. Bunting e nlists his crew in acts of sadistic vigilantism on those he considers devia nts takes Elizabeth's son Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) under his wing. In a mix o f misdirected hero worship and terror\, Jamie becomes an accomplice to a sp ree of torture and murder.
\n"\;The Snowtown Murders"\; is a n uncompromising film\, focused on the relationship between vulnerable teen ager and a father figure who is revealed to be the worst kind of bully.
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