{"id":15034,"date":"2022-06-19T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15034"},"modified":"2022-06-18T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T18:46:41","slug":"celia-1989-ann-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15034","title":{"rendered":"Celia (1989, Ann Turner)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celia’s beloved grandma just died, but she’s got the new neighbors next door to play with, and the eternal hope that she’ll get a pet rabbit. Unfortunately the neighbors are communists, and it’s Australia in the 1950’s during a myxomatosis outbreak (I’ve had the Radiohead song’s bassline in my head all week), so she’s constantly being warned against rabbits and commies.<\/p>\n

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Rabidly anti-commie dad (Nicholas Eadie of pre-fame Nicole Kidman miniseries Vietnam<\/em>) chooses sides, and buys her a rabbit if she won’t play with the neighbors anymore, tells her they’re bad people. Cruelty abounds: the other kids hurt her rabbit, dad gets the neighbor fired. Her family’s cop friend John (Bill Zappa of The Road Warrior<\/a><\/em>) straight-up kidnaps the rabbit, and after it dies in quarantine, Celia becomes the Joker. She shoots John to death while seeing visions of storybook monsters (major Heavenly Creatures<\/em> parallels) and gets away with it, then fortunately doesn’t kill his daughter while staging mock gallows executions.<\/p>\n

Harmless ritual:<\/em>
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Not so harmless:<\/em>
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Celia was Rebecca Smart, who debuted in Dusan Makavejev’s The Coca-Cola Kid<\/em>. Turner later directed Sam Neill and pre-fame Russell Crowe, and remade Teorema<\/a><\/em> starring Sandra Bernhard in the Stamp role(!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celia’s beloved grandma just died, but she’s got the new neighbors next door to play with, and the eternal hope that she’ll get a pet rabbit. Unfortunately the neighbors are communists, and it’s Australia in the 1950’s during a myxomatosis outbreak (I’ve had the Radiohead song’s bassline in my head all week), so she’s constantly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,187,170,2178,144],"class_list":["post-15034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-australia","tag-children","tag-rabbit","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15058,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034\/revisions\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}