Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line is a new documentary about the history of the Band with interviews from the likes of Peter Garrett and other members of the band as they recount their beginnings, the changing band members and their place in the Australian music and cultural scene.
Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line is a good documentary with well done interviews with Peter and the other band members and I really liked the archival footage particularly one segment that covers their trip to an Indigenous encampment in 1987 and taking their music to the locals, I also really liked the archival news footage from the 80s and 90s and 2000’s that covered the band’s main time together.
But I have to say it felt very weird after a while to be watching this documentary on a big cinema screen, don’t get me wrong it’s great to hear those songs in a cinema with the sound system but the medium of documentary is a very intimate one and because of that it doesn’t quite feel right to be watching one in a cinema which by it’s very nature a public space (and one that look a long time to reopen in the dark times) and a documentary is someone telling you their story and to see that in a cinema feels like your intruding on a private conversation someone is having with someone else and it feels wrong.
That said this is a good doco and if you’re a fan of the band then you’ll really enjoy yourself but you didn’t need to watch this in a cinema, 2 and a half out of 5.
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