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Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
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This chapter locates Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in the context of other New Zealand coming-of-age films by showing how it identifies the repressive effects of New Zealand puritanism and resentment of the authoritarian practices of mid-twentieth-century society as the causes of the tragic matricide the two teenaged girl protagonists commit. It also demonstrates the genre-mixing that Jackson believes is characteristic of New Zealand cinema, as well as the impulse to seek refuge in a fantasy world that links this film to other films discussed in this volume, such as An Angel at My Table, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous, and Boy.
Title: Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
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This chapter locates Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in the context of other New Zealand coming-of-age films by showing how it identifies the repressive effects of New Zealand puritanism and resentment of the authoritarian practices of mid-twentieth-century society as the causes of the tragic matricide the two teenaged girl protagonists commit.
It also demonstrates the genre-mixing that Jackson believes is characteristic of New Zealand cinema, as well as the impulse to seek refuge in a fantasy world that links this film to other films discussed in this volume, such as An Angel at My Table, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous, and Boy.
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