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Tough Love: Samson and Delilah
[Thu 02/04/2009 03:09:48]
Samson and Delilah, the buzz film of the Adelaide Film Festival hits cinemas on May 7. Simon de Bruyn speaks to director Warwick Thornton and producer Kath Shelper about their unorthodox approach and uncompromising vision.
Midway through writing the feature draft of his monastery-set period drama, The Father and the Son, Warwick Thornton was forced to a halt. The idea for another feature, a love story between two Aboriginal teenagers, had been bubbling away in his head for years and was pushing to escape.
Over three weeks, Thornton poured his ideas into a script, merely to get it out of his system so he could focus on his main project. The result was Samson and Delilah, which he then put everything aside to make.
“I had this film in the back of my head for three years and I hate to write. The physical side of writing is a pet hate of mine. I was writing a completely different film at the time and this film kept pushing its way through my brain and became this really annoying bloody film that was in the back of my head that I had to sort out, get it completely clear, and write it, so I could get back to writing this other film,” he says.
“I wanted to write a teenage love story about two kids and their journey through life, from community to town and then back out bush. I wanted to create something beautiful and poetic that just takes you on this journey, and doesn’t manipulate the audience too much, and through a series of events shows the issues they have to go through in their communities, and then in Alice Springs.”
While a love story in essence, Samson and Delilah explores themes well beyond the innocent and awkward glances of teenage love. Told partly from within a modern Aboriginal community, and later in Alice, the film deftly shifts between light and darkness, humour and tragedy, as it examines and upturns culture and stares directly into the abyss of addiction, abuse and neglect - issues which plague these communities but are rarely explored so boldly.
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