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It's a big deal in Aus, but The Castle might not be well known elsewhere.
On the surface It's an ode to the dirt poor little Aussie battler keeping the government from destroying his community to build an airport runway...until you realise they're actually fairly rich tradies larping at true poverty, all their friends are some kind of lower PB with hardly a worker in sight, and to them success is becoming feel good small business tyrants.
Exactly the false consciousness that Howard used to turn Australia into the hyper-racist faux-true blue ocker hellworld it is today.