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It is unbearable to think that a child’s life in any country, let alone Australia, could be as sad and deemed ‘empty’ by the child itself as the one portrayed by Sofie Laguna in The Choke .
Justine, growing up in a 1970s rural Victorian backwater is the victim of the isolation and ignorance which are the hallmarks of the setting and her home life. Her feelings of futility, loneliness and longing are revealed with heartbreaking clarity by Laguna; the ‘constants’ of Justine’s life - the ever-changi ...more
Justine, growing up in a 1970s rural Victorian backwater is the victim of the isolation and ignorance which are the hallmarks of the setting and her home life. Her feelings of futility, loneliness and longing are revealed with heartbreaking clarity by Laguna; the ‘constants’ of Justine’s life - the ever-changi ...more
