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The future may be a lot more like the present than we would want it to be.

In today's film, Guy Pierce has his car stolen in the outback. He wants it back. Along the way he picks up Robert Pattinson and they join forces for no apparent reason other than comradeship.

People are so alienated that any hookup seems to make sense. Also, it turns out there is a bit of history for Pattinson that increases his motivation.

That is a about it for the post apocalyptic film

The Rover (2014)

I liked it a lot. Like a lot of films made in Australia, the land is almost a character unto itself. There is not a lot that is needed to embellish the wildness and harshness of basic existence.

I found in the small amount I watched in the "making of" feature that a lot of the characters were people who lived right there. In this awful trailer park-sh kind of scrubby little settlement. Mid desert. Actually it looks a lot like the land all around us here.

I really really liked this film. I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5 as a promise to see it again.

Incidentally, the actors make this. Pierce has always been a favorite and he has aged quite well. Pattinson is new to me but I will be very happy to watch him again sometime. There is evidently no trace of being caste in a favorite television series. No star turns here. He is a twitchy, impulsive primitive here. Quite disturbing.

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