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Tracks (Movie Tie-in Edition) 駱駝女孩的沙漠之旅

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橫越1700英里的沙漠之旅,四隻駱駝、一隻狗,一名勇敢的女子。

★ 2013 威尼斯影展競賽片、多倫多影展、倫敦影展

改編自真人真事。二十出頭的年輕女孩因為喜愛駱駝,與她的狗兒、四隻駱駝,橫越澳洲中­部荒漠西至印度洋,長達1700哩、費時七個月的長途冒險,從此改變她的一生,其獨立­執著的態度也鼓舞不少女性,登上《國家地理雜誌》封面。

Robyn Davidson熱愛澳洲的美景,欣賞當地的原住民,更想擺脫過去身分的束縛,於是她決度橫渡澳洲的沙漠。她知道,當她催眠自己踏出第一步的時候,她就已經騎虎難下(也許該說是騎駱駝難下?)。除了得頂著炎熱的天氣長途跋涉之外,還得躲避毒蛇還有色瞇瞇的男人。駱駝鬧脾氣的時候得去追,受傷的時候得照顧。

出發前儘管Davidson努力打工賺錢,還是湊不齊旅費和裝備費,於是她決定接受《國家地理雜誌》的贊助,代價則是旅途的某些路程必須有攝影師跟拍。也因此,這趟旅程也不再只是她個人的孤獨之旅,當時正是1970年代末,一名三十歲的女子獨自橫越沙漠,引起社會極大的興趣,也帶來許多不必要的揣想和閒話。這趟旅程因而成了一趟反思之旅,她不斷反思自己所做的決定,反思自己和社會之間的關係,反思所見所聞甚至親身體驗的種族和性別歧視,更反思自己是不是瘋了。《Tracks》是她千里壯遊的遊記,坦白而質樸的記錄了她一路的發現與省思。





Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back." Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. Tracks is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and transformation.

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