Backlash
Clip 1: ‘You want a drink?’
3 min 0 sec
Taken from the feature Backlash (1986)
Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG
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Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
This clip contains low-level coarse language.
Curator’s clip description
After a long drive from the city, Trevor, the officer in charge (David Argue), pulls into a country pub for a drink. Constable Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) is appalled when he chains his prisoner Kath (Lydia Miller) to a tap. Inside the bar, they have a screaming argument. Outside, a stranger who has been following them (Brian Syron) helps the prisoner attempt an escape.
Curator’s notes
Most of the comedy comes naturally from David Argue’s bizarre portrayal of a cop who’s basically a degenerate. Argue’s demeanour in this scene tells us Trevor is probably an alcoholic, as well as a racist – but the way he keeps asking Nikki if she wants a drink puts a comic softener on the way we see him.
Paul Byrnes, curator
