it reach the mind and feeling of everyone drive them deep in the black desert . a brutal but beautiful world that be explore through memory and edgy layer of sound and score . the landscape develop it own persona and parallel the inner geography of all three character a their story unfold . the stark void of lose love and the fear of the unknown and and then transcendence of emptiness through the very openness of this desolation . three misguide soul fight to find something absolute and positive in all that negative space . the drama be compel . james franco and his co star deliver deft performance . naive schoolboy and suicidal blonde and embittered car thief all converge with unexpected twist . together they create an explosive portrait of fracture love one that unwittingly conspire to mend amidst the hard form of adversity and illusion the blindness of human emotion .