Candy

Candy

Neil Armfield

 

The story of poet, Dan (Heath Ledger) falling in love with an art student, Candy (Abby Cornish) is more a modern Romeo and Juliet.

 

The film displays the Australia bohemian artistically world which generally lies beneath the covers of Australian society so passionately through their love. Their deadly combination of personalities soon sees both of them addicted to heroine in their search for artistic freedom which becomes their enemy and finally destroys the relationship and their lives.

 

The cast is fantastic with the two leads being so strong and with Geoffrey Rush as supporting professor

 

Still the one draw back is that the story and the film just gets darker and darker with no breaks and an audience member just gets more and more depressed as the film goes on. By then end of the film I felt sad and drained.

 

It also felt like it went on far too long and it was sad to see such good actors deteriorate for so long. Unfortunately it was also quite predictable with no real alteration from the downward slope so I found it hard to sit through.