Australian voices are the medium used to reflect an Individual's value in the society, culture, historical and political beliefs of Australia. It expresses general opinions, perspectives, attitudes, interpretations and emotion of both individual Australians and the wider collective society. In "The Castle" by Rob Stitch, the Australian voices, both private and public voices provide the audience with an insight into a range of voices that shape Australian culture and society.
Firstly, Australian character's private voice are used to convey the significance of family and relationships within the Australian society. This is explored in the Father's day scene where medium shot was used, positioning Darryl in the centre of his family members looking at him with admiration. This highlights Darryl's central voice in the film, depicts that family
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members love and value his voice by giving him presents. The family is so important to Darryl that the love and concern for the family is expressed all the way through the film as the family is close together in both joyful and terrible times. This is represented through the close up shot of the family photo in the pool room. These voices highlights the significance of the family and their close relationship as a value distinctly upheld both within the film and in the wider Australian society. Furthermore Private female voices are a vital distinctive element of the Australian voice. The composer demonstrates the caring nature of females through Sal's female voice. The closeness of her relationship with Darryl and her children is conveyed both through her caring voice "what's wrong darl" and the constancy of touching gestures. She always clasps her hand on Darryl's shoulder or arm and cooks dinner daily for her family, thus showing her care and love towards her family. Also, Sal plays an imperativssssse role in teaching her children the significance of principles and discipline through her story of how Darryl met her, hence teaching her children about Australian moral and ethical values. This makes the audience aware of the private female voices as a significant aspect of the Australian voice. Moreover, When private voices express the same values and opinions, it can be considered as a public voice representing mateship as a wider distinctive element of the Australian society.
The composer uses a medium shot of Darryl with Darryl's private voice, in conjunction with Farouk's and Jack's voice exemplifying a shared public voice while sitting on Darryl's dining table and discussing to continue fighting for their "Castle" against the Airlink cooperation. Also, in Darryl's shed Darryl is volunteering to offer support for his neighbour jack "Jack, I know you can't do it. I will be kicking in for you" and Faruk says "I'm with you Mr Darryl" depicts the support and care for each other as a friend. Also, the QC lawyer, Lawrence, as a friend helps working class man to win their case without any expectation of recompense. "I would like to appear on your behalf gratis, no fees" further represents the value of mateship. This depicts in Australia mateship grands equality regardless of the person being from working class or the upper class family. This conveys the public voice of mateship endemic in the Australian
society. In addition, Multicultural voices are collective voices representing Australia as a distinct multicultural nation. Through medium shot, a multicultural voice is expressed by Tracey's husband Con having a Greek background and the cake for their wedding has a small 'Con' kick boxing on the top that represents assimilation of the culture, since the kick boxing would come from Asia ,it is not a typical Australian sport. Also, the tone of pride in Dale's voiceover, "Tracey's taken up kick boxing" illustrates Kerrigan's have accepted the multicultural influence. Furthermore, Faruk's cultural accent and poor English such as "they say plane overhead drop value...I like this plane" causes humour, successfully conveying Australia as a new safe home for him. Moreover, his broken English, depicts his appreciation of the acceptance , "No Mr Kerrigan You do good Job" with repetition of no emphasizes he is trying to rate his idea, but his poor grammar creates a problem for him and relies on Darryl to help him in a crisis, representing how Australians provide support and value multicultural voices as an intrinsic part of Australian society. Also, in Australia, the significance of respecting and valuing the aboriginal voice is communicated in the movie 'the Castle'. Through the sympathetic voice of Darryl in his poolroom " I now know how the Aborigines feel" and the courtroom reference to Mabo due to the allusion of land right, Sitch uses these voices combined with the parallelism of the plot and the Aboriginal land right issue to give the audience an insight into the emotional, call for respect and rights to the Australian indigenous community. The composer tried to make the audience aware of the injustice served by the Australian government in the past to the indigenous community through reshaping the same situation in the case of Darryl where he has no right to save his house even though he owns the land just because the government makes the rule. Eventually, Darryl wins the case as the judges realise "A man's home is his castle" similar to the Aboriginal case where they get their land right back eventually. Thus, making the audience aware that respecting the Aboriginal voice is a value distinctly upheld both within the film and in the wider Australian society. Overall, these aspects of both private voices of the characters and the accumulation of public voices combine together to express support for mateship, egalitarianism, multiculturalism and Indigenous communities. All these aspects encapsulate for the audience the distinctive nature of the Australian society and combine together to form a multidimensional Australian voice.
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