A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since I kept hearing some pretty good things about it, I was quite eager to check it out. First of all, to be honest, I usually don’t care much about road-trips. Indeed, in my opinion, it is one of the laziest genres during which the characters always meet some quirky/wise people and learn about themselves. In this case, it was also rather murky how this father (with his little boy and their dog) ended up in the middle of nowhere in the Moroccan desert or why these ravers would go there to run one of their illegal parties, without mentioning how did they manage to get the funds for this or how did they manage to power their massive speakers in the freaking Sahara? So, not everything did work and, yet, the damned thing turned out to be so intense though. First, there was this daunting mesmerizing soundtrack. But then, right in the middle, they actually killed off this poor little boy which was just so shocking and heartbreaking. It was just so unexpected and one of the boldest narrative choices I ever saw. While we (the viewers and the characters) were all trying to recover from this dramatic turn of events, I didn’t realize it at the time but, basically, the makers were actually stuck and they had apparently no idea how to further expand this tale. As a result, the remaining characters got stuck in some minefield and half of them got blown to pieces randomly. Unfortunately, while the death of the poor little boy was oddly fascinating, awful and plausible, I didn’t care much for these other random deaths which were included, in my opinion, because they didn’t really know what to do with these characters anymore. Still, the damned thing was so fascinating, showing that, even if we are lost in the middle of nowhere (willingly or not), you can’t ever really escape the harsh reality of this insane crazy world. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still liked the damned thing and it is definitely worth a look.