Limbo

Beautifully shot with solid performances from Simon Baker and Rob Collins, but I found the story a bit lacking. Most of the movie centred on Travis driving around in a black dodge with a rotating cast of passengers (I found myself wondering how he got a week of use out of it when his Holden was hotwired on night one) and I found the relationships he developed with Charlie and Emma more convenient than believable, as we were explicitly made to believe that First Nations people in town had been chronically mistreated by the cops, yet he somehow won their complete trust over the space of a few days without really doing anything more than half-heartedly investigating a 20-year old case. At the very least I felt like there could have been a more opaque juxtaposition between him and the local cops, where he proved to them that he wasn’t just another policeman coming into town to dig up some old trauma and generate some false hope before disappearing over the horizon.

Did Charlotte fall in love with one of those rapists, or did they just kidnapped her, abused and in the end killed her? I guess we'll never know. Slow, but good.