I sort of remember Ryan Kwanten as a stocky looking young man in the Australian soap opera 'Home and Away' not so much from being a viewer of the series - I wasn't - but rather through photos and gossip columns in the celebrity style magazines to which I am partial.
Kwanten took himself off to the USA, lost a bit of weight and at the same time buffed up and now appears to have an international name for himself from another series I don't watch; 'True Blood'.
Given his new found and wider fame as a bit of a hunk it is interesting that he has come home to make the quirky Australian film 'Griff the Invisible'. Kwanten plays a shy shipping clerk who is bullied mercilessly by an uncouth coworker and who by night dons a tight rubber suit to fight crime almost exclusively - it seems - in the back lane where he lives. His alterego activities attract the interest of the police in the mistaken belief that the man in the rubber suit is in fact the villain. He also attracts the interest of his brother's new girlfriend, herself an oddball who pursues alternative universes and studies the molecular structure of humans.
Be yourself and maintain the differences that distinguish you were the messages I took away from seeing this film.
Kwanten plays completely against his current pretty boy image and presents as a surprisingly convincing looking naive innocent.
I didn't think the film quite lived up to its local reviews. It drifts a bit in the middle and is perhaps just a little too low key. Filmed in 'my' part of Sydney it was fun to see many of the locales on the big screen.
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