Jasper determines to confront Lionel on New Year's Eve, and together with Charlie, goes to his house. Jasper believes that Laura's murderer is Mad Jack Lionel, a reclusive old man who is rumoured to have done terrible things in the past. It is revealed that Charlie's mother, increasingly disillusioned with life in Corrigan and her marriage, is having an affair with the sargeant involved with the investigation into Laura's disappearance. The tension is funneled into strict curfews for the children as well as racial attacks on Jeffrey's family. Meanwhile tension builds in the town, as parents fear more disappearances, and townspeople search for someone to blame. Jasper is interrogated roughly by the local police, but he soon escapes. As Jeffrey wins the game on the last ball, Charlie and Eliza hold hands and embrace.Ī search for the missing girl is soon organised, focused on the idea that she may have run away. Eventually fortune goes his way, and he finds himself batting in a game against a rival town, watched by Charlie, who has befriended Eliza, Laura Wishart's younger sister. Jeffrey is passionate about cricket, but his attempts to join the Corrigan team are thwarted by the racism of the coach and other players. Jasper, aware that he is likely to be blamed for Laura's murder, convinces Charlie that they should hide the body, so they throw it into a nearby pond, weighted by a large rock. Here Charlie is horrified to find the dead body of a young girl, Jasper's girlfriend Laura Wishart, battered and hanging from a tree. Jasper begs for Charlie's help, and leads him to his private glade in the bush. On Christmas evening Charlie is unexpectedly visited by Jasper Jones, an outcast in Corrigan due to his Aboriginal heritage and rebellious lifestyle. Eliza Wishart, a local girl, and daughter of the mayor of the town becomes more and more endeared towards Charlie. Charlie spends his days with his best friend Jeffrey Lu, a Vietnamese boy who shares Charlie's love of intellectual banter, and deals stoically with the constant race-hate inflicted on him and his family. In 1969, Charlie Bucktin is a 14-year-old boy living in the fictitious rural town of Corrigan, based on the real rural town Corrigin in Western Australia. The film was released in 2017 and is based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Craig Silvey. Toni Collette, as Charlie’s frustrated mother, and Hugo Weaving, as the hermit Mad Jack Lionel, meanwhile, are both brilliant.Jasper Jones is an Australian mystery drama film directed by Rachel Perkins. That said, the young leads, including Angourie Rice as Laura’s sister, carry the heavier material of the film well, particularly during its later scenes. At times though, the screenplay, co-written by Silvey and Shaun Grant ( Snowtown), feels more like a series of vignettes than something cohesive, and it’s never really understood why Jasper would entrust Charlie with such a monumental task, outside of both of them sharing “outsider” status. It’s a testament to Perkins that she wrings as much emotion out of a local cricket match as she does the film’s more heartbreaking revelations. Was it unlocked by Laura’s disappearance, or has it always been there waiting for an excuse? The victimisation of Charlie’s friend, Jeffrey (Kevin Long), and his family, simply for being Vietnamese, would suggest the latter.ĭirected by Rachel Perkins ( Bran Nue Dae, Radiance), Jasper Jones almost effortlessly swings between the summer fuelled frivolity of youth and the oppression of adulthood. This act of faith by Jasper causes ripples throughout the community.Ĭomparisons to Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird are to be expected as young Charlie witnesses the prejudice that simmers in his neighbours. Hiding the body, he implores Charlie to help him find Laura’s murderer. With Laura being white, and Jasper indigenous, he feels – in fact, he knows – that all fingers will point straight to him as the chief suspect. McGrath), a rough-around-the-edges kid who is in desperate need of help after having found the body of his girlfriend, Laura, hanging in the woods. Set over one Christmas in 1965, Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller) is woken in the middle of the night by Jasper Jones (Aaron L. Based on Craig Silvey’s Australian coming-of-age novel of the same name, Jasper Jones exposes a town’s cruel underbelly through the eyes of its child protagonists.
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