Land REVIEW
“I am here in this place because I don’t want to be around people. Do you understand?” the main character of Land says.
This is my second movie today that centers on a character who ventures out into a desolate wilderness to be more absolutely alone. Because they apparently believe in the therapeutic benefits of aloneness. And yet, as we soon discover, against their best intentions, they discover that no one survives when they are absolutely alone.
Sometimes, a few people (or a person) can make life tolerable. In both movies, the beauty of landscape, animals, a dog, and nature with a little human love in the mix, heals.
“It’s important that we leave each other and the comfort of it,” Robyn Davidson, the author of Tracks, writes in telling her story of her trek across Australia,
“and circle away, even though it’s hard sometimes, so that we can come back and swap information about what we’ve learnt even if what we do changes us.”
In Land, Edee Holzer moves to a mountain top cabin in Wyoming, hoping basically to freeze to death or die of starvation. Both women are saved from their over-confidence (begrudgingly) by knights errant and their own grit.
Question for Comment: If you were going to escape the world of people, where would you go?
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