KarolineS. Tracks (2013) is a breathtakingly beautiful biopic by Australian filmmaker John Curran, which is about the truly remarkable journey of a young woman. It is a screen adaptation (written by Marion Nelson) of Robyn Davidson's memoir.In 1977 Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) decides to take on a journey across the Australian outback. She covers a distance of 1,700 miles on foot only in the company of her dog Diggity and 4 camels. Davidson was able to get sponsored by The National Geographic, who send the photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) to take pictures of her along the way. She starts her expedition in Alice Springs and after over 6 months arrives on the coast of the Indian Ocean. Curran's film Tracks is a Biopic, but it can also be categorised as an adventure film or drama. It shows Davidson's struggles before and during her journey and addresses themes like dealing with solitude, loss, danger and reaching one's goals. The visual transformation of Davidson is captured remarkably through costume and makeup. Davidson's skin becomes tanner and is starting to show the effects of the sun and her clothes start to look worn out and distressed. Wasikowska and Driver not only look very similar to Davidson and Smolan they also play their characters in very convincingly. The filmmakers also made an effort to recapture the original photographs taken by Smolan through the cinematography. Most of the pictures Smolan (Driver) seems to be taking in the film have an original counterpart. The audience gets to see a beautiful array of extreme long shots in combination with pans that capture the rural desolation of the outback intertwined with medium to extreme close-ups of the animals and people in the film. Occasional shots from above follow Davidson's tracks and show the constantly changing surroundings. Throughout the film, the viewer gets to see flashbacks to Davidson's childhood which gives an insight into her childhood. An additional beautiful detail of the film is the non-diegetic music which is composed by Garth Stevenson. The style of the music is loosely comparable to the desert, it recaptures the wilderness and bleakness through a soft and inconspicuous string and piano music. Overall, Tracks is a stunningly beautiful film that recaptures an incredible true story as well as the Australian desert in an outstanding way.

sol- Inspired by true events, this potent drama tells the story of a young woman's trek from central Australia to the ocean on foot during the 1970s - a journey that took several months with many hardships along the way. The film takes a while to get going with excessive narration by lead actress Mia Wasikowska who suggests an overload of possible reasons for her journey before beginning, but once she gets started, the film rarely lets up. The locations are a wonder to behold as she treks through landscapes untouched by civilisation without any signs of life, but the film represents a metaphorical journey too as she works through repressed memories that pop up throughout. Initially, she is resentful of all human contact, of having to rely on National Geographic magazine for funding as she does really want her journey documented, of tourists who want to photograph her, and of folks along the way who want to support her as she believes that she is independent. As the film progresses though, she comes to truly appreciate human contact and learns to accept that it is natural for people to want things from her, whether it is as love interest, a tourist souvenir, etc. Such a comment might make 'Tracks' sound straightforward though and it is not in the best possible way; there is a dreamlike feel to the film at times as her journey is interspersed with sporadic moments of her wandering sunburnt through the desert, capturing a sense of lost time. The deliberate pacing of the movie occasionally makes it hard to get through, but it offers a memorable experience at the end of the day.

Seth_Rogue_One So okay, road movie might not be the right word for it considering that our 'heroine' doesn't go by any vehicle or by any roads, but I mean in the end it's the same sort of ordeal as a road movie.Perhaps more of a spiritual journey, but so are the best road-movies.Anyways, the movie is based on Robyn Davidson's real life-tale who set out to with nothing but a dog and some camels go on a 1700 mile trek across the Australian desert.A bit slow (naturally) but Mia Wasikowska in the lead as Robyn does well at engaging us viewers in a fairly restricted performance (which is a great task in itself) and the cinematography is also well-shot which helps as well.If I should point out anything negative then that is that the end for me didn't pack the great emotional punch that I was hoping for, and that Adam Driver's character was a bit annoying (but that could very well been partly intentional).But other than that no real complaints and I would watch it again, and most definitely will at some point.

Digital Blade This is a very interesting examination of human nature, one aspect of it, anyway, namely Freedom! This is a piece of cinema catering to the ones that want to explore said aspect on yet another, possibly unachievable level. For the pioneering spirits, the renegades of society, faint reminders of where we come from (from the point of the protagonist) and how far we have to reach to grasp our true desires -- in this case to be truly free.A modern-day epic that sneaks in some good humour and free-spirited adventures. And a nice hidden gem of movies