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Simply A Masterpiece

Overrated and overhyped

Excellent adaptation.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Common people do things that seem impossible and uncommon. What appears a crazy journey is just an endless meeting. When the leading woman character realizes it, she starts to smile and embrace each problem, tragedy, lack of water crossing the desert as part of her life journey. Every single moment communicates and gives small drops of wisdom. By the way, a proverb say the hardest step in a journey is the first. Tracks are unique and endless. Take your own. In fact, ways chose and draw tracks across our life stories. Wise film!

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.

I think this movie came up as a suggestion from my Netflix list, and I am so glad that we added it. I was skeptical at first, since it looked like it could have just been another "Wild"(the Reese Witherspoon movie). We liked Wild but we were wary of seeing another derivative of the same movie. But we really like the young actress Mia Wasikowska so we gave it a shot.Beautiful cinematography (and actually filmed in the Australian Desert), great acting, interesting story. Liked it even better than Wild. Mia's acting was great and she deserved the awards she was given, wish she had won more. Too bad this movie wasn't better recognized in the states when it came out.

The story is straightforward - one woman's amazing journey across Australia. I love this type of movie not just for the individual's story but also for the scenery and landscapes and the inspiration the movie may bring to travel and share at least a part of the experience. Wild and Into the Wild were both fantastic in bringing you into the troubled mind of the lead character.With Tracks I think there are two problems. The motivation and lessons learnt by the lead character aren't clear enough to really understand why she is embarking on such an arduous journey. Secondly, the landscape through which she travels is harsh but it must be said as boring as hell with days on end of unchanging scenery. The movie is slow and ponderous with little pace and the journey seems relatively uneventful with only small episodes of interest occurring over the extended period of the trek.Having said all the above it was a reasonably enjoyable film and with relatively low expectations worth watching.