Too much of everything

A Masterpiece!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The Australian desert provides a scenic setting for this movie. Unfortunately, we don't get to see much of it; almost the entire movie is filmed in or around a cabin in the desert. Adding to the monotony is a sparse cast of only four characters.The story revolves around the four characters who are stranded in the desert without water, transportation, and communication capability with the outside world. When the movie begins, Minna is living alone in the desert with enough food for her to plan on living in the desert cabin for the next six months. She also has a water tank containing a plentiful supply for her to have been watering a tree she's planted in front of her cabin.Boyce arrives at the cabin to evict Minna because her lease has been canceled. Minna does not want to leave and, when physically forced by Boyce to leave, decides to sabotage him by puncturing the fuel tank on his truck. (If you wonder why she's so adamant about not leaving to take such a measure, you'll need better luck than I had to find a convincing reason in the movie.) Before Minna could use her computer to call in help to take Boyce away, two teenagers passing nearby encounters car trouble. Minna and Boyce go out to find the broken down car and to offer help.The teenagers steal Boyce's truck and uses up what little remaining fuel to get to Minna's cabin. We're told the youngsters are fugitives from police and for that reason they destroyed the computer to break contact with the outside world. The two also exhaust the water supply at the cabin by liberally washing their hands and hair. They did this despite having carried no water with them on their persons or in their broken down car even though their travel plan involved driving into the middle of a vast desert. At this point, the characters have set the nonsensical premise of the movie by knowingly putting themselves into a situation where they have no transportation, no communication to the outside, and no water in the desert.If you expect the rest of the movie to offer clever escape plans (something like siphoning fuel from the teenagers's car to use in the truck) or arduous efforts of survival, you'll be disappointed. What you'll likely get is more nonsensical drivel.

To be honest when I first saw this advertised I wasn't really interested as it's not my usual type of movie (being a SciFi/Fantasy nut) until I noticed that Myles Pollard (ex McLeod's Daughters) was one of the lead roles and as I've always been impressed with Myles I thought it would be worth watching after all, so I brought it. Wow! What a powerful film! Let me say it's NOT for children, as this is a story about survival in the desert without water and has some rather 'dark' moments included. The scenery is absolutely stunning and it shows what can be achieved with a good compelling script while only using a "simple" set and very few cast. I quickly found myself drawn to these people and wanting the best for them as though they were friends (and not simply actors in a movie) whilst glued to my chair for almost the entire length of the film. Very well filmed, written, produced etc with a terrific cast. I do recommend it and I even "WANT" to watch it again (which is unusual for me). Well done everyone. :)

Thirst contains truly beautiful scenery and a captivating story. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, it was such an original storyline that captured many emotions and a range of themes. The backdrop of the movie would have been challenging to film in, but the result is just brilliant. So glad to find an Australian movie of this quality. I was left thinking about the movie for some days afterward, it's the kind of story that makes you think beyond watching it.I'd definitely recommend watching the movie, like I said, it really is great to see an Australian film of this caliber.