This is the story of Robyn Davidson who treks across Australia from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. From her time acquiring camels as carrier beasts, the obstacles on the journey like sandstorms and wild camels, to culture shocks against the native people and the hospitality of the remotely located farmers. Robyn develops a relationship with a photographer, Rick, who checks on her from time to time as part of her sponsorship. After going through hallucination due to dehydration, losing her dog to some stray poison, avoiding overbearing reporters, Robyn finally reach her destination the Indian Ocean. Among all these events the movie gives flashbacks to Robyn's childhood.
The basic premise is another average one, though it's an appealing human interest subject. The development is nice, including cultural elements. The pace built is a bit too slow for me, yet it's quite helpful that the mood of having the desert's restlessness is maintained well all along the movie, even at the earlier camel ranch scenes. But overall, in between the significantly dramatic or critical events, this movie feels quite sleepy.
The movie also shows real life tricks of faring treks, like Robyn ordering her dog to go home when she's lost after her compass broke down. Yet it also shows the real dangers of it like the stray poison can and also the desert wildlife.
Yet to read the book, I must admit the dramatization of the cultural touch is greatly done in the movie. The cultural piece covers both the native people of Aborigins and also the outback farmers of European descent. On the focusing of the Aborigins, the movie depicts both the positive side of having a good togetherness, and also the negative side when Eddie springs up asking money to the tourists.
On the focusing of the settlers, the positive side is depicted by the farmers' hospitality, and the negative side is shown by the earlier scene of the camel rancher. For me, I think the best take on cultural touch in this movie is when Robyn hallucinated about Eddie prohibiting her to do the cutting of the dead kangaroo.
Playing the focus role, Mia Wasikowska acted nice in this movie. She succeeded in articulating a soft Australian accent that is stable along the entire movie. Adam Driver also contributed nicely In portraying a rather annoying photographer.
As good as this movie is getting to, I think it's not going to receive greater acceptance. The final say from me is a 6 out of 10 for this movie. A recommendation is a rather no from me, unless you're curious about Australia or the desert.
The basic premise is another average one, though it's an appealing human interest subject. The development is nice, including cultural elements. The pace built is a bit too slow for me, yet it's quite helpful that the mood of having the desert's restlessness is maintained well all along the movie, even at the earlier camel ranch scenes. But overall, in between the significantly dramatic or critical events, this movie feels quite sleepy.
The movie also shows real life tricks of faring treks, like Robyn ordering her dog to go home when she's lost after her compass broke down. Yet it also shows the real dangers of it like the stray poison can and also the desert wildlife.
Yet to read the book, I must admit the dramatization of the cultural touch is greatly done in the movie. The cultural piece covers both the native people of Aborigins and also the outback farmers of European descent. On the focusing of the Aborigins, the movie depicts both the positive side of having a good togetherness, and also the negative side when Eddie springs up asking money to the tourists.
On the focusing of the settlers, the positive side is depicted by the farmers' hospitality, and the negative side is shown by the earlier scene of the camel rancher. For me, I think the best take on cultural touch in this movie is when Robyn hallucinated about Eddie prohibiting her to do the cutting of the dead kangaroo.
Playing the focus role, Mia Wasikowska acted nice in this movie. She succeeded in articulating a soft Australian accent that is stable along the entire movie. Adam Driver also contributed nicely In portraying a rather annoying photographer.
As good as this movie is getting to, I think it's not going to receive greater acceptance. The final say from me is a 6 out of 10 for this movie. A recommendation is a rather no from me, unless you're curious about Australia or the desert.