Shame

After suffering a dry spell with dull and predictable Hollywood-style output, the Australian film industry has finally put some spark back into its product with SHAME, a low-budget genre hybrid with an angry, feminist perspective. The movie begins as a black-leather-clad, helmeted motorcyclist (Furness) zooms through the deserted two-lane highways of rural Australia. A tough, independent barrister on holiday, Furness is forced to stop in the small, dusty town of Ginborak when her bike breaks down. She is treated like meat by the local lads gathered in front of the pub, but the attractive strawberry blonde ignores the loutish catcalls and stares of this Neanderthal ...