Published: January 07, 2020
Stan’s new film undercuts its own attempt to subvert the traditional masculinity in which the Ned Kelly myth is steeped
Every generation reinvents Ned Kelly anew.
The new Stan film production True History of the Kelly Gang self-consciously celebrates the innate pliability of the Kelly myth. In director Justin Kurzel’s imagining of the gang’s last stand, graffiti at the Glenrowan Hotel repeats the famous line from William Faulkner: “The past is not dead, it’s not even past.”
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