Watching it now. The guy is very annoying and rude.
Jill tries to treat him nicely at first, but it becomes more clear she is dealing
with a nut job.
he sure likes chewin' that gum.
"It's for the pain. Rarely touch the stuff...Can I have another?"
Uh, I think your semantics are bit screwed up: It's about social class divisions, not class, as in "He's got class" or "She's so rude--she's got no class!" LOL
As a treatise on class divisions in modern Australia, it was very incisive. I actually was pretty certain Max would end up hurting Jill, or worse, because of the ginormous chip on his shoulder about being working class in the presence of someone from the academic class, someone who probably didn't care about the difference at all until he started trying to "prove" himself. Insecurity can lead to violence, so I was relieved the film didn't go in that direction, although it would have been interestingly more provocative if it had.
I was referring to social class. My point was it isn't that Jill looked down on him because she was highly educated and he wasn't.
She treats him quite well until he starts acting strangely.
He was a psycho, whether he was coming to fix a leak, do her taxes, or help her on her thesis he was trouble.
it's about a whole bunch of things. great movie.
Just put it on the Underhill's tab.
The "plumber" just sucked and was playing some sort of nasty head game. He was a psychopath who loved ruining people's lives. Maybe it is some Anglo-Australian thing to look for the class angle but even if he was some professional, it still wouldn't have made a difference. Taking a shower in your client's bathroom? Running pipes all over the place? Come on.
shareI think that it was a class thing as well as being about the plumber's behaviour. Both things are kind of going on. I found myself taking either side several times throughout the film and always wondering, always questioning. I don't think that looking for a definitive answer is the point here. Weir is rather adept at cajoling us into asking questions that he will never answer. Point in case: Picnic At Hanging Rock.
"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."