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Harry confronts Sandi and tries to ask if she spoke with Hector in secret, which she denies. After things get tense, Sandi leaves. Later on, Hector and Harry pay Gary and Rosie a visit in hopes that things will go well, but after Rosie goads Harry by questioning if he's also violent towards his family, the mediation goes sour and after Harry storms off, Rosie calls the police. That evening, Harry is about to enjoy a night of passion with Melody only to have it cut short after receiving a call from Sandi that Rocco engaged in a fight with a teammate from his basketball team.

Rocco explains to him that he needed to stand up for himself, to which Harry replies that learning how to be assertive with control is something that the two need to learn.

Just when Harry and Rocco arrive to their house, the detectives who spoke with Hector, as well as Gary and Rosie, meet up with Harry and let him know that charges were pressed, and that he would be arraigned in criminal court.

Hector learns of Harry's arrest and goes to the court where he learns that Rosie accused Harry of assaulting the family by throwing a chair when he actually kicked it. Bail is posted, and Harry confides to Hector that this matter will be fought. Add content advisory. User reviews Be the first to review. Details Edit. Release date February 19, United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 42 minutes. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page.

Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. See the gallery. The Rise of Will Smith. After World War II, Australia undertook a period of mass industrialization that resulted in a doubling of its population and the coming into the country of hundreds of thousands of migrants initially from southern Europe, and then increasingly from Asia and the Middle East, which profoundly changed the makeup of the population. I wanted to write a novel that gave voice to this experience.

For such reasons and also because of the music! I feel more at home in the United States than I do in Europe. However there are three main differences between the Australian and the American experience I want to outline because I think they are important for understanding the book. First, we never had a revolution and so our colonial ties to Great Britain have never been severed. It was not until after the end of World War II that non—Western Europeans were allowed entry into the country and the act itself was not officially abolished till Second, having traveled through the United States, the fact that Australia was never a slave colony means that we have subtly different ways of understanding race and racial oppression from the Americans.

African Australians are people who have come from Africa or whose parents were migrants or refugees from Africa, largely over the last two decades. Third, and I think most important, the most vexing and difficult political question for us Australians is the continual dispossession of the Aboriginal people from their land and culture. No other issue more troubles our nation and it is the reason why so many of our great works of art have been attempts to deal with this history.

One of the continuing tragedies of our ongoing inability to heal the wounds of racism here in Australia is that too many indigenous youths are destroyed by alcohol and drugs. Bilal has found, through Islam, a means of transcending the violence of such a past. That too is a provocative choice but I think faithful to an experience, and possibly one Americans can recognize from their own history of racism.

The geography of Melbourne and its various neighborhoods plays an important role in this book—in some cases, almost defining the characters and their social status. Do you view geography as a kind of social destiny? Melbourne is my city—I know it, understand it, I fall in and out of love with it.

I think it is important as a writer to not forget what we have learned as readers. Readers are willing to be introduced to a city or a place as a character, to discover its neighborhoods, geography, sights, and smells through the power of words. Do I think that geography is social destiny? The Slap is a novel about the middle class and one of the things that defines the new middle class is gentrification. Melbourne was a very industrial city, its inner neighborhoods were migrant and working—class until only very recently.

I wanted to have characters reflect on the changes in their city, and I hope that through such reflections a reader anywhere in the world can identify with how physical space is as much a marker of memory as is family, as is love and desire. A reader could potentially find a sly commentary in there. Do you think these characters would be more psychologically evolved or even happier if they were more directly engaged with bigger issues? The novel was written at a time when Australian culture was the richest it has ever been, where we were the wealthiest we had ever been.

Concurrent with the rise of such wealth was a growing sense of entitlement. Now I hear that word everywhere. I probably would question how true the old myths were, but undoubtedly I believe that we have grown more selfish in our culture. I am a man who wants to think of political questions. I am also very aware of the possibilities and opportunities that I have, that come from the struggles of feminists, civil rights activists, from many committed individuals in history who suffered to allow me to live as an openly gay man.

I feel I want, in my life, to honor that history. I am often shamed by how I fall short of that goal. I think the sense of entitlement that so many people now have is corrosive.

It does create selfish communities, selfish marriages, selfish families. I am also equally wary of a self—righteousness that I find in many of my peers, and I fear that I see it too often in myself. It was very important in writing the book that I was honest about the lies we tell ourselves, the many small and big compromises we make in order to not be challenged or to not have our comfort disturbed.

I fear that our present culture is not a brave one but I wanted to be honest about my own shortcoming as a man. I have felt shame, I have betrayed people I love, I have hurt people out of spite and selfishness. I wanted to be honest about my generation and the only way I found I could do that was to be as honest a writer as I could. My own favorite character in the book is the old man Manolis.

But he does not have that sense of entitlement that I see in so much of my generation; he does not have that self—righteousness. He knows there is a bigger world out there than himself. I think many of us have forgotten that. Those kinds of books make me want to drown myself in whiskey just to rid myself of the stench of both entitlement and righteousness. Those books stink of the worst of the contemporary middle class. An interesting element of your narrative structure is that these very disparate and sometimes at—odds characters tend to view one another very similarly.

Are you suggesting that there are certain universal truths about people? I understand this thinking. Of course I do, this is why I have chosen the structure that I have in the novel, to have the narrative be taken up by eight different characters, to have the reader constantly have to shift their identification, to have to question their conclusions.

But given all that, yes, I do believe in the reality of universal truth, that there are experiences that can be understood across time and space. The films I love, the books I adore, the paintings and music that mean the most to me, they all prove this.

I am not being deliberately cryptic here. I will speak now as a reader rather than as a writer. I know that the best books, the books I love most or unsettle me, upset me, disturb me the most, touch something of the universal even when the particulars of narrative, characters, place, and time have nothing to do ostensibly with the geography and biography of my own life. For readers and writers to reject the universal is to betray the very possibility of fiction.

How, as a writer, do you manage to make a difficult and flawed character sympathetic? If I assumed that readers were only interested in characters that were sympathetic, then I might as well give up writing. Rosie represents the worst of the self—obsession, the entitlement and self—righteousness I associate with my own generation. But I think it is that I see those traits in myself that allow me to try and imagine her world, her thinking, her confusion, her determination.

I think that if a writer is faithful to an experience, then that is one way that you can allow a reader to enter the consciousness of even the most difficult of characters. When it comes to Rosie, I have been surprised at how visceral the hate directed toward her can be. It has been one of the things that have most disturbed me over the last twenty years, how excoriating people can be about mothers, and how often other parents can be the worst culprits.

I wonder if the violent responses regarding Rosie are not telling of our own confusions and fears about parenthood, about how we are raising our children, our nieces and nephews. Her voice was essential in this book. I was resisting writing in her voice because she was exactly the kind of person I derided, one of those people I cursed and dismissed. So when I came to writing in her voice I had to do what I did with all the characters, I had to find an element of my own experience that could serve as a guide.

That was my way in because it is also one of the things I most detest about myself: my self—delusion and my social cowardice. I should say that it was a way in, not an endpoint. That aspect of Rosie is something I share, but in other ways she is such a very different character from me. I would hate to think people thought that the characters are just eight different personas of the writer. Also, and very importantly, Rosie loves Hugo. As a plot device, does desire always have to be destructive?

She also is a successful professional woman with her own veterinary business. Entering her forties, she is assailed by doubts about her marriage and future. Like Connie he is trying to work out his identity, beliefs and boundaries. What he wishes most is that the world was a simple happy place where everyone just got on. He is a frustrated artist who works as a labourer. A man who has never fulfilled his potential and deals with this fact by drinking too much.

Sandi is married to Harry. They live in a luxury home by the beach with their year-old son, Rocco and materially have everything they desire. Rhys is the much younger boyfriend of Anouk. At age 4, Hugo is just an innocent child in all the proceedings , or is he? He is still being breastfed.