![]() Their friendship with Sando (Baker) begins when the older, wiser, freewheeling surfer gives them a lift. ![]() Pikelet and Loonie, circa the mid-1970s, buy crappy surfboards and take to the water. So much so that Breath feels almost like a chamber piece, the largeness of the ocean an alternative to boxed-in settings and closed spaces. ![]() That chapter is jettisoned and a Wonder Years-like narration (voiced by Winton himself) is introduced, complementing the film’s visual melancholia with a wistful sense of perspective.įor the most part Baker focuses on a small number of intensely drawn characters. ![]() This was hinted at from the start of the novel on which Breath is based, in which Tim Winton – the Australian literary world’s pre-eminent “poet of the beach” – introduced an ambulance man, whose latest traumatic job triggered memories of his childhood, setting the tone for the rest of the story. ![]()
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