The international success of Australian films are very low, due to the very much lack of talent with both directors and actors. But then 2:37 came along.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, et al., tried to present American high school as a la-de-da-da musical experience in the ANDY HARDY bushel of movies.
Almost all humans in almost all societies are deeply connected with a sense of unfairness, hierarchy and to the presence of perversity since an early age. School can be and is more often than it seems an authentic institution of psychological cruelty, mainly between students.