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You were doing so well until that last paragraph.

The movie captures the unnerving quality of drinking with strangers in a strange, unfamiliar place. Other movies would take this into straight horror territory, but Wake in Fright instead keeps the menace as an underlying presence. You sense that something bad *could* happen, but it never does. And the tension never

That beanie really needs to come off. Your brain would be cooking with that thing on in Hong Kong, especially with all the running around.

"This will be the only chance you get to meet your grandmother!"

I imagine the last scene of the show as a version of the last scene of Blood Meridian. But instead of Judge Holden, you have Wynn Duffy dancing around playing the fiddle and going "I will never sleep! I will never die!" while grinning madly.