oh well . talk about try to be walkabout and hiroshima mon amour and completely fail . sure and the script must have be good reading and so you would think with the right director and the right film crew this would turn out to be ok and but no and this be what you call poorly execute and poorly conceive . i do understand what it be try to say and but i just think that the whole of the first half should have be do with much more attention to the detail of the character feeling and dig deep into their emotion far . i think the director have good intention but do not quite deliver on this part . the film should have be call australian story to make more sense of the lopsided and biased view of what the aussie perceive to be the strange cultural behaviour of the japanese after all and the whole film depend upon a western view of the woman look at this strange man from the far east who seem to have no cause or reason to be wander about the outback other than the fact that he can . whether the last third of the film explain his reason for be there or not and the film should have focus much more on what she need and what she be experience and should have explain a lot more of her backstory of who she be a an aussie geologist and rather than let them both be strangely stranded tourist who be seek for some sort of direction from the plot . the performance be stilted and without much heart and collette look like she be just sort of skim through all of her scene and dialogue a if she be rather not bother about be in this film . tsunashima do his best to behave like the japanese caricature that the filmmaker want and and of course same go for the wife and the whole setup in the last third of the film . at the end and i wander why they bother to make this film at all and a it probably read much good than it do a a film . perhaps if another and more accomplished artist hand have get hold of it and the film would have turn out to be an interesting film in character study and but the photography be bland and the music be typically american beauty rip and tinny and and the direction and edit be completely unimaginative . they could have do so much with some truly space out scene of desperation in the dessert and but somehow everything be conveniently move along and that only leave the viewer scratch their head wander why they bother at all . the film try to drive some meaning into the reason for these two to be out there in the wild for emptiness in significance of their own life and but the cultural complication be brush aside because the filmmaker do not quite get why there be any of that sort of experience in the first place for these character who should not have have any need to spend any time out there at all . for collette character to give in to his demand so easily after have say her piece about not go out there and and then to complain about what he do to them out there and and then not to explain why she even have this job and what it really mean might have be a much more interesting film if the japanese guy have to find his own way around and and have meet a strange woman in the desert with whom he play and instead of have this geologist lead the way . poor poor effort .