Best movie of this year hands down!

Waste of time

Truly Dreadful Film

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

It is not an easy feat to make such slow, serious, moody, thoughtful, visually rich but eventwise sparse movies like Tracks. The very story is the real life traveling of a woman named Robyn Davidson, along with her doggie and 4 camels. Australia is a very unfriendly continent with its dire desert, merciless sun, dry arid air, cruel winds, lack of rain and plenty of sand and flies as well as pests in heated air. And yet, people live there and life goes on well there, as well. Mia Wasikowska does a great job as a main hero, and Adam Driver serves very well as a bit awkward but deeply sympathetic photographer. Their duo holds strong, with all the cameo roles and short appearances of numerous actors. One strong word of warning to all those who're going to peruse this film - it is rather slow, moody and deeply dreamy. If you're after fast wild action flicks, stay away from this one. But if you're interested in slower and moodier pieces of cinema, you're for a right track. In fact, this film only made me bewildering more how some brave people can try such dangerous trips alone and in such unfriendly country climatewise. They do, and they prove that a man is strong.

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.

"Tracks" is based on true event about Robyn Davidson tracks in some desserts in Australia just with some camels and a dog. They walk mile per mile to receive her own ambition, to reach the Sea by foot. This movie is really interesting because it delivers us about some simple reason of human-being's wish-cycle to always finish his or her ambition, no matter what happens, and how to start with really small thing: First walk. Perhaps this was what the director of the movie thinking, this movie is full of some scenic adventurous plots that maybe only real adventurous could understand why this "Tracks" must be finished, in any challenge. For me, "Tracks" is also a family movie because the main character, Robyn Davidson, in some scenes, refer to her family and some memories of family that made a motivation for her to keep moving forward. Besides of that, this movie also gives us some unreasonable reasons to be sad alone and that is sometimes connected to human's limit of hoping and reality. A good movie!

I often find that in movies such as this one (or The Martian etc.), I find the need to drink a glass of water. Maybe a bottle of water. Anyways.This film was very affective in that way. Making me thirsty like that... Jeez. Also, that means that I'm inspired. I'm sad. I'm happy. These are all different emotions this movie gave me. I didn't even think about it was only actors until I saw the real pictures of Robyn at the end of the movie. To me, that is something most movies should aspire for, to make the viewer think it's real in the moment.I can not forget how awesome Mia Wasikowska is, she's been a "idol" of mine for I while now, which i'm proud of.