YEAR: 1971
DIRECTOR: Nicolas Roeg
PINBALL MODEL(S): Sluggin' Champ (1955, Gottlieb)
GAME LOCATION: Private home
NOTES: In a film largely concerned with the practical and ideological frictions that arise from the cultivation of modernity in Australia, this scene exists as an effective visual evocation of that theme.
Here, progress is shaded as being regressive, and modernity (and its participants) are marginalized in its wake. Roeg privileges this pin by allowing it to occupy half of the frame; a monolith alluding to the European detachment from the natural space.
