Helen Smith

It's really the collapse of that worldview, I'd say.

I think for Gen Z, it's becoming way more of a myth.

And look, hopefully some of this structural reform will start to slowly make inroads to change things.

But the disadvantages of not owning your own home in Australia are just so acute that I think that's why the Australian dream still holds so much importance.

If you're renting into retirement, that's a really tough life.

Yeah.

So the film really looks at this kind of like complete misunderstanding between generations and what was possible for the baby boomers.

That's no longer possible today in terms of like that affordability.

And I think that housing was more like

you know, like it says on the box, it's a house, it's a home to live in for previous generations.

But obviously the changes to kind of the tax structure meant that it became a vehicle to make a whole lot of cash.

And like you can't blame people for like jumping on that bandwagon and like playing the hand that they were dealt.

But the fallout that we're seeing from it now is that like massive disadvantage to younger generations.

And that I think it's absolutely time for reform and to try and

you know, like it's come late, but better late than never in terms of trying to correct that.

I mean look we're obsessed with housing in Australia in a way that's kind of crazy but it means I mean something that I look at in the film is that housing is like charts and percentages and all these things that we see on the news but the impact is so much kind of more multifaceted in terms of the way that

it's like a really emotionally loaded thing.

Like it's so pivotal to having a good life, to like have a safe place to live.

And so, yeah, the film is more about the impact that this kind of housing crisis is having on the psyche of a generation more than it kind of being the fiscal kind of result of where we are now.

So it's like...