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Australian Movie Dogs In Space

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One of my favourite teen (young person's) angst movies is Dogs in Space. An Australian movie, Dogs in Space is set in Melbourne, 1978. Sam (Michael Hutchence) and his girlfriend Anna (Saskia Post) are amongst several young people, many of them members of local punk bands, living in a rented house. With Skylab about to fall to Earth, life is a continuous whirl of parties, old movies on television, sex and way too many drugs... 

Dogs in Space is really a statement of the fragility of life and the impact that bad choices can have on your life. , A a dramatic story about a houseful of young people with no apparent purpose in life. “The main setting is a rundown house in an impoverished district near Melbourne, Australia, where conversations …show more content…

Although Dogs in Space is fiction, it draws heavily on characters and incidents that Lowenstein knew from his time in a share house. He says in an interview in the DVD extras that he always thought that life in that shared house could be film material, and nearly a decade later he had the chance to prove it. …show more content…

In the band performances, the vocals were performed live to a backing track. Dogs in Space has an anarchic humour and can be characterised by it's non-judgemental look at characters who are often addicted to drugs. Dogs in Space has been accused of glorifying drug use, as if making any film other than a complete downer on the subject is unacceptable. I don't agree with that: depicting something is not the same as endorsing it, and Dogs in Space is honest enough to show that people take drugs because they seem to have a have a good time on them...at least at first but it shows the high price that one will pay for drug use.

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