Stopping up the Works: Weir’s The Plumber and Social Class Conflict

Authors

William Blick, CUNY Queensborough Community CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 11-2017

Abstract

The Plumber, an Australian film by director Peter Weir, is an exploration of different characters from diverse backgrounds thrown together in an awkward and challenging situation. It manages to play on audience’s biases about the working class. The director succeeds in is giving us is a Hitchcockian exploration of clashing socio-educational-economical forces, and straddles the line between value judgement and simple interpersonal experiment.

Comments

This work was originally published in Senses of Cinema.