Peter Weir's Idealism

The Australian film industry seems to be limited in our vision. In contrast, we are more likely to favor the scenery of Australia, and the beautiful and vast prairie makes us more fascinated. And for this English-speaking nation, there is no shortage of cinematic geniuses. Peter Weir is one of my favorite directors. He was the standard-bearer of Australia's contemporary cinema revival, most remembered for his Dead Poets Society, Mosquito Coast, Truman's World, and the car that devoured Paris, Peter Weir I think it should be regarded as an outlier. Even in the extremely modern film circle of Hollywood, he still made a different voice and raised some reflections and questions about the whole Western value.
"Mosquito Coast" is one of his masterpieces, which is adapted from the novel of the same name by American writer Paul Sirokos. It tells the story of an idealistic inventor living in a small village in the middle of the United States, and in the end the inventor's dark personality ruins him. He never forgets to describe such kind of people and things on the edge. His films have a kind of anxiety that runs through, those abnormal mental states, exaggerated action reactions, terrible dreams, etc., all the time. A reminder that there are still people in this world who live this way. From his films ("Dead Poets Society" ends with a tragedy, but also shows the hope of civilized innovation; "The Truman World" reflects on the era of human media) we can see Australia's unique character and civilization characteristics, Because of geographical factors, he started from Australia, a geographically marginal place in the West, and made a powerful critique and reminder of Western values.

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