PAGE 22 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1986 Coral Andrews Chronicle Special Advertising executive Harry Joy is a ‘good bloke‘ and a damn good story teller. One night after his usual roundâ€"theâ€"table storyâ€" telling ritual, Joy has a cardiac arrest and astroâ€"projects in the process. Bliss is a deliciously sardonic social statement, a graphic scruâ€" tiny of everything civilized man holds dear; greed, power, lust, blasphemy, disease, synthetics, debauchery, security and money. *"Because at the end of the day, what else is there?" There‘s Bliss ... This bizarre little gem won Australia Best Picture of 1985. It‘s definitely not for the masses, but for those with a wry sense of wit. As Joy ‘"floats" toward the heavens, he realizes he‘s not quite ready for the hereafter and therefore reâ€"enters his body a changed soul. For Harry Joy life is bliss, punishment, heaven and hell on earth. Bliss isn‘t social comment, it‘s social annihilation. He decides to be "good", a ‘"rather unnecessary thing to The movie possesses a Freuâ€" dian underbelly of black humour LARGE INDOOR SHOWROOMS Preâ€" SUPERIOR MEMORIALS 528 Victoria St. N.. Kitchener (Beside Weston Bakeries) 745â€"6136 Australian film Bliss long on social statement â€"Winter Installation YOUR MEMORIAL SHOULD BE ORDERED NOW Movie review And his professional life isn‘t much better. Joy vainly battles his clients all who peddle cancerâ€" inducing products. One staunch sales rep claims "the whole Western world is built on Joy‘s home life brings no Bliss at all. and dour insight into a world of environmental carnage, as told through the simple tales of Harry Joy. Joy (Barry Otto) looks a shade like an Aussie Marty Feldman, the late comic great of Mel Brooks fame. He is a victim of circumstance, who after his outâ€" ofâ€"body experience sees everyâ€" thing from a clearer perspecâ€" tive. For your copy of the ‘"Where to Eat in Waterloo"‘ brochure, contact: The Waterloo Chamber of Commerce 5 Bridgeport Road West, Waterloo, Ontario After shopping, for a special occasion, a business dinner, or an evening out with old friends or relatives, take another look at Uptown WaterIoo for places to eat. All centrally and conveniently located in Uptown Waterloo! Free and ready parking. Waterioo has over 90 eating places. Uptown Waterioo is home to over 30 of them! You‘ll find them amidst fine shops, art galleries and service institutions â€" ready to serve you anything from fast food to an elegant multiâ€" c::c;’se dinner to spicy Szechwan to healith food! PLACES TO EAT LOOK AGAIN Uptoun Wataloo cancer," and even has "cancer maps‘‘ to prove it! Though he has fallen from grace, Joy in his quest between good and evil, does find a partial solution through Honey Barbara, a sensual bee keeper/coquette who turns Joy‘s meaningless existence upside down. Based on a novel by Peter Carey, directed and written by Ray Lawrence, Bliss is not comâ€" parable to any movie in plot or characterization, but it does have the same subtle comedy essence and brilliance of satires Being There, Brazil, After Hours, and The Dranghtsman Contract. The Aussies have done it again. Over 20,000 Trees from 2‘â€"20‘. 40 Acres of Shade Trees, Blue Spruce, Shrubs, Seedlings and Fruit Trees. $15 Ned Mapiee. . . . ... .. .. . . ... from $14.00 . Fay: Magiee, wamat Linece M Fomamng** 220° Green Mapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . from $9.00 _ Crab, Birch, Red, White and Pyr English Oaks, Spreading Junipers .. . . . . . . . . . .. from $4.75 _ Locust, Muiberty, Magnolia, Jap. Red Maples, Pyramidal Junipers .. . . . . . . . . . .. from §$7.75 _ Lilacs. Hedge Piants, Flowering Shrubs, Railway Jap. Yows ...sl.............. from $12.75 &ï¬rarm,w.m WHITE/BLACK & PYR CEDARS, 2s mom*4,9§5 C.I.L. FALL FERT. 25 «o Come and wisit our outstanding assortment of hardy, chmatized, locally grown trees and shrubs SUNDAY SALES %>) JOHN‘S NURSERY ree & Shrub Sale _â€"".( me P’GU 7 i4 10 PC t * I 6 Retail & Wholesale â€" Fully Guaranteed 1 4.00 from $14.00 tfrom $9.00 trom $4.75 from $7.75 tfrom $12.75 NORW FRUIT TREES 12.75 Second House from Wagner‘s Corner on RR #1, Waterioo