Anthony fingleton autobiography of a face
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Rush and Davis give bold performances in this true-life account of Aussie swimming champ Tony Fingleton.
SWIMMING UPSTREAM (2005) *** Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl, David Hoflin, Craig Horner, Brittany Byrnes, Deborah Kennedy, Mark Hembrow, Mitchell Dellevergin, Thomas Davidson, Kain O'Keefe, Robert Quinn, Keeara Byrnes. (Dir: Russell Mulcahy)
Rush and Davis give bold performances in this true-life account of Aussie swimming champ Tony Fingleton.
Athletic biographies and films about sports in general seem to keep audiences enthralled as they line up to see them, rooting for the underdog and living vicariously through their triumphs as well as viscerally feeling their emotional (and physical) scars they accumulate in the long and winding road to success.
In the latest true-life account the sport is swimming and the athlete is Australia's national champion Tony Fingleton circa the 1950s-early 1960s, beginning with his humble
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On the surface, Zailckas comes across as a typical young woman, working out with her college cheerleading team and pledging her sorority.
Her sorority sisters are party girls (but aren't parties the reason people join a sorority?).
She drinks in her dorm room with her buddies - it's so cold outside, what else are they supposed to do? (Study? Nah!) At a school like Syracuse University it's easy to amuse oneself with liquor, especially when the bars are just metres away from most Greek houses and fake IDs are passed around like lipstick.
Zailckas stresses that heavy drinking among ung women has become so common and accepted that it doesn't seem like a big deal.
She points out that the group mentality seems to be that it's perfectly OK to get wasted and wake up on the living room floor, just so long as you don't hurt anyone along the way.