The latter often play like something you'd encounter in a mid-century Hollywood classic like " Rebel Without a Cause," a melodrama in which two boys and a girl from dysfunctional families play "house" in an abandoned suburban home, and the hero, a sensitive young man buckling under nonstop pressure to act tough, suffers a breakdown in front of his dad, a man he condemned as emasculated and who happens to be wearing an apron at that moment. Kelly's story has been retold numerous times, and the lead role cast with a dizzying array of actors (including Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger). "True History" is one of the more arresting attempts, in part because it treats the outline of the tale as raw material for flights of fancy, seemingly modeled on psychodramatic spectacles like " The Sacrifice," " A Clockwork Orange," " Apocalypse Now" and " The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," and anchored in intriguingly retro Freudian situations and images. The gang was wearing homemade metal armor at the time, in hopes that it would deflect bullets. He and his gang were crushed in a shoot-out with law enforcement in 1880 after failing to derail a police train. Kelly was an anti-authoritarian of Irish descent who became a bushranger (wandering robber) under the tutelage of Harry Power (played onscreen here by Russell Crowe), then waged war on Australian colonial police, partly as a result of ugly run-ins between Victorian police and the Kelly family.
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