Darryl Kerrigan's The Castle

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‘The Castle’, is an Australian comedic film released in 1997, starring Michael Caton as Darryl Kerrigan, a middle-aged father of a working class Melbournian family. As the story progresses, Darryl retains his kind-hearted and affable personality, but after a large corporation attempts to ‘compulsorily acquire’ his home, Darryl transforms from a naïve and ignorantly optimistic man, to one who is more realistic, and has a better understanding of Australia’s capitalist bureaucratic system.

When the audience is introduced to Darryl, cinematic techniques such as sound, lighting, and cinematography are employed to present him as a well-loved, typical Australian ‘bloke’. During the opening credits, the diegetic sounds of gardening, traffic, children
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