Envy
Director Julie Money's Australian feature veers slightly around the usual themes, but creates an interesting and new mix of character study, role reversal, and sexual politics. The story is basic, but its presentation is tantalisingly different. Envy opens with a fragment from a scene that doesn't appear fully until the film's climax. It draws the audience into confusion, and sets up the possibilites for unconventional storytelling. Envy grabs the attention immediately as the camera settles on young, blonde and nervous-looking Rachel at a suburban shopping mall. As if caught by a surveillance camera, she looks briefly down the lens (and directly at us in the audience) before leaving the frame. Later we will discover the significance of this moment but for now it's all the information we're given as the destinies of Rachel (Anna Lise Phillips) and Kate (Linda Cropper) collide. At a public swimming pool, Kate, a married professional recognises wh
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Approximate Word count = 644
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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