The price of dreams, needs and wants not being allowed or fully realised in the Y generation, where there is almost too much choice presented on a platter of sorts, is explored in determined abandon in Submerge. We see both Angie and Jordan struggling with their respective rapidly evolving sexual identities and are witness to the damage people can procure onto themselves when trying to repress their innermost wants. There’s seemingly a dual statement here by Holmes and O’Connor on both the trend to underrate academic endeavours over sport in Australia and also that with the ever increasing freedoms to be who we want to be in terms of our sexuality, which has an ambiguous fluidity to it in a generation not wanting to label themselves, there is still a stigma and pressure for people to be straight, conform and be ‘normal’ in our societies. Partying, drugs and sex are prolific as we are literally Submerged into Jordan’s world.
This is coupled with an infatuation with her University professor’s wife Angie (Christina Hallett) turning sour and the water in the pressure pot well and truly boils over for Jordan as she begins to spiral into a world she had previously not experienced to help cope with pressures that she simply cannot deal with. As events unfold, we are witness to the fact that Jordan’s mother is in fact living her life vicariously through her daughter and Jordan appears to feel the increasing pressure of pleasing a parent rather than following her own coveted dreams. The first sign of the tension in Jordan’s over scheduled life appears in the strain between Jordan and her mother. But, as many people have experienced, the old adage of you can’t have it all seems to ring true as we are witness to Jordan’s increasing sense of feeling overwhelmed with the high pressure placed on her by both her mother (Kath Gordon) and also, it increasingly becomes apparent, herself. A happy go lucky twenty something, liked by all, with a coveted athletic swimming spot training for the Olympics and at the top of her game and also attending University at the same time and doing well.
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Whether it’s an indulgent journey, gratifying and eye opening, or rather a destructive spiral into a black hole devoid of light, is explored with gritty rawness by the talented Australian pairing of Kat Holmes and Sophie O’Connor in their first full length feature film.Īt first glance Jordan, played with a clever duality of both innocence and a sexual awakening of the -thrown in at the deep end variety- by actress Lily Hall, seems to have it all.
The film Submerge is a story about an individual’s complete immersion into life. To be viscerally surrounded on all sides by it. The word submerge means to immerse oneself into something completely. A story about an individual’s complete immersion into life
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