Speaking about this precept of nonkilling, he told us about all the killing that he had done that very day as he drove his mower through a thick field of

The breeze had died away and the tree was now quite motionless save when William's statements required forcible gesticulations, which made it sway in a gentle nodding manner as though it were confirming every word the old sage uttered.

While the film is rich with moments of explicit sexual threat — most notably the naked photographs and Sparks' attempted rape — the image of Jessica tied to the front of the ute remains one of the most excessive and horrific images of violence against women not only in Australian “Ozploitation” film, but in rape-revenge as a whole.

To yet another source of recognition of legitimate successorial authority, in which charisma may be transmitted by ritual means from one bearer to another.