Lonely adventure

Mortimer 2022-01-16 08:01:33

Adapted from Robin Davis's autobiographical novel "Track", a road movie in a sense. In order to smooth out the inner scars that began as a child, the heroine walked into the desert alone and worked in a wild town to earn a camel on the road. This is a real journey. Robin is just a needle in this desert story stringing all people and things. Men dominate, white people's contempt for the natives, travellers scolding female protagonists for neurosis, and reporters who take pictures. In order to let the wound heal, the hostess was already suffering and was finally able to walk into the desert. However, the death of the accompanying black dog was like a knife that had cut open the wound that had already been scabbed little by little. Fortunately, the photographer brought a touch of moisture to the dry heart. This lonely journey brought two loving hearts to the end to the beach.

The story of this film is not very coherent and a bit loose, but this narrative technique makes the rhythm of the film more relaxed and more comfortable. The heroine played by Mia experienced natural and man-made disasters, faced despair several times, and finally completed a lonely adventure. One person, one dog, three camels, two people.

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Tracks quotes

  • Robyn: In the desert time is elusive. There were days when minutes dragged on for years, and the hours stretched for eons. It felt as if I was perfectly stationary, walking in place, pushing the world around under my feet. But time moves in one direction, always forward. So I decided to keep on walking no matter what.

  • [last lines]

    Robyn: I'd pared my possessions down to almost nothing. I had a filthy old sarong for hot weather, and a jumper and woolly socks for cold weather. I had something to sleep on, and something to eat and drink out of. And that was all I needed. Like any journey, it's not what you carry, but what you leave behind.