Toomelah Page #3

Synopsis: In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Ivan Sen
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
106 min
121 Views


there Wednesday.

Well, I can't book

you up next week.

One stick, take it out

of the keycard here.

No, f***. Look, man, I don't

want your f***ing keycard.

Bugger out, no.

Already got one. Just one

stick there, Linden.

I mean, just can't do it, man.

Oh, f*** on, Linden.

Yeah, man, look, I'm on empty, man.

You wasting my f***ing petrol.

Wasting my time, I gotta go.

We gotta go, man, we gotta go.

Linden. Man, you're

making me late, man.

Oh, f***ing, Linden,

now come on, will you?

You're making me late. I'm

on empty now, man. Petrol.

Well... No, man, f*** off.

Let go, man. Hey, hey, hey.

Hey. Come here.

Hey, hey!

Boys, who gonna go in up there?

Jerome, you gonna go

in for me or what?

No, f*** that. I'm

not going in there.

Well...

How about you, you scared? You

gonna go in for me, bro, or what?

F*** that. You

f***ing go in there.

Well, what's up your ass?

You do it. F*** a gangster? He

just came out of jail, that c*nt.

I don't know what he

could do, you know?

F*** that, man. You

scared of the c*nt?

I will.

What's that?

I will. What's that?

You sure? Yeah.

I'm not scared of that big c*nt.

Oh, boy, look.

Wait. Dan, you sure you

wanna go in there?

You know what you gotta

find when you get in there?

Yeah. Where is it?

Just go in there

and find it, okay?

When you find it, I'll be out

here waiting for you, I promise.

Well, go on, then.

You think I'd do this?

Hey, Dan, man, I thought you were

gonna get busted there for sure.

What, did you find it or what?

Yeah. Well, where was it?

In the first room under the bed.

And there's a big f***ing

knife there, too.

How big? How big?

F***ing no, that big, dog?

A f***ing knife?

Nah, f*** this sh*t, boss.

Jesus, I told you he's

a mad c*nt, boys.

Come on, bro, let's get

the f*** out of here, eh?

F***. Always.

Yeah, well, Daniel, thanks for

f***ing doing that here, because...

You got it, man. Let's

get out of here, let's go.

Daniel!

Daniel.

Do you still love her?

Who?

Tanitia.

You do?

Tanitia, you love him?

You don't?

Daniel, she don't

love you no more.

Still love her?

Nah.

No?

Daniel.

Daniel, come here.

Where you been?

Nowhere. Where you been?

What do you wanna know

where I've been for?

I thought you had no money.

What do you wanna know

if I got money for?

What?

Go on see your aunt in there.

Why should I when she don't

take no notice of me?

All right, just go inside.

Don't remember at all what he wants,

but he doesn't wanna be that way.

What the f*** you doing?

The f*** you doing?

Eh? What? What?

Saw you at school there.

F***ing up all the time.

Look, he can't leave...

You'll get him suspended.

Yeah, what do you care?

Oh, I don't f***ing care.

The boy f***ing fun.

Don't laugh. That boy ever

come and live with me,

he'll be a different man.

He'll be a f***ing man.

He'll be drunk.

F***ing get a life or something.

No f***ing...

He'll get a life?

Have you got a life?

Yeah, I got a life.

What doing?

Well, then you snap the f***

out of whatever and look...

And look after him.

But do you act... Do

you act like a father?

Do you?

Well, I try to.

Try.

I'll have to f***ing take

him out one day, eh?

Him and his f***ing mates.

Who?

His mates. Who?

The mates he f***ing

hangs around with.

You don't know

anything about that.

Know about what?

Big old prick, it ain't real

f***ing all the f***ing drugs.

Not a real druggie.

So what you f***ing

trying to prove?

Getting on their favour, hey?

That's right.

What, are you into drugs too, c*nt?

That's right.

You into drugs, too, c*nt?

What if I am?

You f***ing don't wanna be

because if I find out...

And if my kids are on

them, pity up you.

Hey, come back here.

Come back, you hear?

Come here, Daniel.

Who do you want to live with?

Mom.

Why?

Because you're drunk

all the time.

What? What does it look like?

Well, I'd rather drink than her

here, you can go around and...

Smoke my sh*t, what your f***ing

mother does all the f***ing time.

Okay.

F*** you and your mother.

He already told you who he

wants to live with, Michael.

What, you wanna live with her?

If you wanna live with that

woman, that's your case,

but lad, don't come

back to Daddy no more.

F*** you, then.

No f***ing... I ain't doing

it, motherfuckers, no.

F*** them.

Boys, look here, look,

he's f***ed now, boys.

A cop has got him, huh?

F***, look at him. Coppers

going in there now.

They'll get the c*nt.

They'll get him this time.

What the f***?

Come out smooth, the boys.

Now look here, look.

They're shaking his hands, the c*nts.

Look here, the f***?

He going around f***ing shaking

coppers' hands, the c*nt.

He going.

Smoke then, Nan'.

How long you been smoking?

Another one to take my smokes.

Nana, how come my

aunt went away?

Daniel, what are you hanging

around them boys for?

What you gonna do with yourself?

I don't know. What can I do?

Daniel, come here.

This my little boy, Daniel.

The Champ, I call him.

Hey there, little cousin.

How you going, all right?

Bruce's a good fighter, too.

See his muscles there?

Go on, Daniel. Show

him how you shape up.

Hey, little Daniel,

come for a drive.

We're gonna check out the river.

Go on, Daniel. Go

for a drive there.

Come on, little cuz.

You have a girlfriend,

little Dan?

You will. You wait, little bro.

Wait till you get older

and they'll start

fighting over you.

You'll start acting silly,

too, with them girls.

And they'll make you silly, too.

You'll start slapping b*tches

around, too, soon enough.

You wait and see.

People say you wanna

be a bad c*nt.

You wanna be a bad c*nt?

See this eye?

I was shot with an air rifle

when I was little just like you.

Did it hurt?

F***ing oath, it did.

Can't see f*** all out of it.

This f***ing mission.

No one come and see you in jail.

And when you get out, all they

want is your f***ing jail money.

How come you done all them bad

things that they said you did?

What bad things, little cuz?

I suppose I'm just a bad c*nt.

Everyone in this f***ing

mission wanna be a bad c*nt.

Well, here I am.

You wanna be a bad c*nt?

Well, you gotta do bad things.

And when they lock you in jail,

you won't be no virgin in

the bum no more either.

You know what a

virgin in the bum is?

I know you was in the house.

Little Tupac saw

you go in there.

You tell Linden

and them little plastic gangsters

they wanna be real careful.

You tell Linden, bub...

You tell Linden

if I f***ing see

him in here again,

if he fucks with me again,

I'll slash his f***ing throat.

Who's there?

Get out of here,

you little b*tch!

Daniel!

Get out of here!

Don't talk back and

get out of here.

You wanna get, I'm telling you.

I'm gonna kick his little ass.

You just take off, boy. Go on.

Yeah, well, I'm coming

back for you, Tupac.

Tupac, I'm coming for

you next time, bro.

Linden. Hey.

Where did you go?

Bruce knows that you

called the cops on him.

How did he know?

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Ivan Sen

Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Australian indigenous filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer and sound designer. His work is both extensive and acclaimed in Australian circles.Drawing on his mixed heritage, his films present themes that revolve around issues of dislocation, place and identity. more…

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