Dreamtime

I feel in the film the character is attempting to leave the western/european mind perspective behind - she's really initiating herself, whether she's conscious of it or not, into a kind of primal, aboriginal Dreamtime. The film draws the viewer deeper and deeper as it gets quieter and quieter with the desert looming vaster - it's not as much about external events as it is about awareness. This offers a radically different experience than what the typical Hollywood movie provides. "Tracks" is capable of bringing up all sorts of feelings in the audience. It had a big impact on me.

"The self in a desert did not seem to be an entity living somewhere inside the skull, but a reaction between mind and stimulus. The self in a desert becomes more and more like the desert. It has to, to survive. It becomes limitless, with its roots more in the subconscious than the conscious." - Robyn Davidson from "Tracks", the book.