A Cry in the Dark

It's sort of cool to see where the whole "the dingo ate my baby" thing came from. You sort of forget that it's actually based on a true story. And here is the movie based on that true story, a movie I have been watching for several months now.

The movie stars Meryl Streep and she is definitely the highlight here. My god the woman is good. She does such a great job with the Australian accent you honestly forget she isn't really Australian. It's pretty damn impressive. It's no wonder she was nominated for her performance, and even though I don't know who she was up against, she damn well should have won. Great stuff. Sam Neill is also great as her husband, and you can see the fear in his eyes that soon enough, he is going to have to take on dinosaurs.

I love me a good courtroom drama and this one is a pretty solid one, but not one of the best either. It helped that I had no idea how the true story turned out so I was interested in seeing what happened in the end. I did find the movie a little long and it had some slow parts, but it was overall pretty engaging.

I think the problem is that after 2 decades of baby eating dingo jokes, it's almost funny whenever a character starts yelling about "the dingo ate my baby!" It's a horrible incident obviously, but it's just so hard not to laugh at that now. There's another scene I found very funny (even though I'm sure I wasn't supposed to) where two characters are fighting about the trail and one of them gets really fired up, yelling "THE DINGO IS A MAJESTIC CREATURE! HOW DARE THAT BITCH!!!" This man is more passionate about dingos than anyone has ever been about anything. He even fucking punches the other guy, that's how enraged he is. I can't even imagine loving dingos enough to hit a guy over it.

This movie is a pretty good watch with some great performances and an entertaining story. I would check it out. Although it's also known as "Evil Angels" for whatever fucking reason, so like me, you may have some trouble tracking it down.

7/10