In today's bitter and twisted world, Canberra is a mundane miracle
So for example when Pasolini's Jesus (played by an average-looking economics student and a communist activist Pasolini took a shine to) walks on the wind-whipped waters of the Sea of Galilee (a freshwater lake, and in the film looking eerily like Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin on a wintry day) he is not showing off at all. And our view of what he's doing is the amateurish sort of thing one of the amazed disciples might have captured with his iPhone.
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