Storyline
A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
User Reviews
Something
that looks like a 'film', specifically this term and the aesthetic to
which it implies, I feel has come to be expected of contemporary
dramas/character studies. Mojave knows it. It looks to tick a lot of
these archetypal boxes: jaded, frustrated characters, blatant motifs
(the temptation of Christ?), a redemptive narrative, an undertone of
despair that never loosens up until the end of the last arc. Yes with
all these elements motivating it's narrative, the movie never achieves a
sense of coherency; it's Hitchcockian one moment with it's intermittent
key score, and then Fincher-esque the next with it's sweeping pans and
use of negative space in shots. It's an actor's playground that, as
charming and talented as all the individuals are, doesn't leave a lot
for the audience to soak in, unless you really, really like angry,
shout-y Mark Wahlberg, who is playing quite possibly the closest
characterisation to his real life personality in this role. I never
fully understood the goal of the protagonist... I guess it had something
to do with doing the right thing and his daughter? Too much Tyler
Durton syndrome in concepts like these I feel.
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