Katie Cordrey
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I have to say, I am not a fan of the ‘Come Walkabout’ commercials directed by ‘Australia’ filmmaker Baz Luhrmann for Tourism Australia. I know this makes me uncool and will leave me unpopular, but I just feel too depressed by the ads to care. The one above starts out in rainy New York and it’s such a downer, I had to see it half-a-dozen times to realize that it actually has a happy ending… sort of. I expect the couple will be breaking-up as soon as the vacation is over. The one below is a little lighter, but it doesn’t really inspire my desire to explore Australia. In fairness, the work is beautifully composed and artful. I suspect this plays better in the film, Australia, than as an ad for tourism, but then, I doubt I am the target audience… I’m not quite sorrowful enough.  If the commercial represented real parents who are in the midst of a divorce, it would've shown them arguing all the way to Australia, then one of them would've been found strangled to death in a hotel room four days later.
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