"Tracks" presents Davidson’s preparations for travel, camel taming, and the journey from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean shore after going through all kinds of dangers. It takes nearly two hours to show the time sequence and main plot. Try to restore the original novel as much as possible. However, for a story about self-seeking and self-discovery, director Karan used a third-person perspective to narrate, and he regrets that he can’t go deep and watch. The calm restraint of the lens makes the external observation less straightforward and profound than the inside-out analysis, so the film does not always impress the audience.
The journey is sensual and amazing in Davis's own pen, while in Karan's lens, there is more harsh and beautiful nature, and Mia's praiseworthy but slightly naive performance. The film is not "thinking about the self" but "the performance of Davidson's self-thinking process". This is a success of a biographical film in a certain sense, but it is also limited by this "faithful reproduction" framework. , So that the film seems a little flat. In addition to the exquisite lens, the beautiful natural landscape and the wonderful background music, the film guides the audience to think about the "self-seeking", "self-value realization", "loneliness and life" and other topics are not powerful enough, and because of the lack of storytelling, the audience will It is often taken out of the story by overly exquisite images
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