{"id":556068,"date":"2023-02-24T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-limbo-review-simon-baker-leads-a-starkly-atmospheric-outback-noir\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:46:59","slug":"watch-limbo-review-simon-baker-leads-a-starkly-atmospheric-outback-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-limbo-review-simon-baker-leads-a-starkly-atmospheric-outback-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: Simon Baker Leads a Starkly Atmospheric Outback Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db8064c651\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db8064c651\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-limbo-review-simon-baker-leads-a-starkly-atmospheric-outback-noir\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_Simon_Baker_Leads_a_Starkly_Atmospheric_Outback_Noir%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: Simon Baker Leads a Starkly Atmospheric Outback Noir&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-limbo-review-simon-baker-leads-a-starkly-atmospheric-outback-noir\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_Simon_Baker_Leads_a_Starkly_Atmospheric_Outback_Noir%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: Simon Baker Leads a Starkly Atmospheric Outback Noir&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_Simon_Baker_Leads_a_Starkly_Atmospheric_Outback_Noir%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: Simon Baker Leads a Starkly Atmospheric Outback Noir&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_Simon_Baker_Leads_a_Starkly_Atmospheric_Outback_Noir%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: Simon Baker Leads a Starkly Atmospheric Outback Noir&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s a parched austerity to the landscape of the Australian outback, along with an embedded history of conflict between Indigenous and invading occupants, that makes it irresistibly well-suited to screen westerns. But there\u2019s a loneliness to it, too, a sense that its quiet vastness could swallow you whole and without trace, that lends itself as easily to moody, smoky mystery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen has twice before dabbled in the harsh, dry space where those genre possibilities overlap, in his features \u201cGoldstone\u201d and \u201cMystery Road.\u201d In his latest, most accomplished film \u201cLimbo,\u201d he once more surveys the region with a critical eye, finding a history of racial injustice in its sharp cracks and long shadows. But the genre styling this time has been pushed all the way to stark, monochromatic stylization. This is outback noir \u2014 oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked \u2014 and Sen wears it well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Admittedly, with his straight-cut jeans, Western shirt and silvery belt buckle that could take a man\u2019s eye out, \u201cLimbo\u2019s\u201d taciturn hero seems less like a suave gumshoe than he does a cowboy, a surly, crusading Man With No Name. He does have a name, as it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens: Travis Hurley, a hardened police detective blown in from far away to investigate a 20-year-old murder in the bare, desolate and fictitious town of Limbo in South Australia. Played by a craggy, buzz-cut Simon Baker \u2014 initially near-unrecognizable and never better \u2014 with an air of exhaustion that meets its match in this depleted opal-mining community, he exudes more rogue menace than institutional authority: One child remarks that he looks like a drug dealer, not a cop. (He does indeed have a private, lingering heroin habit.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But Travis isn\u2019t a thug, exactly. He carries out his cold case review with a quiet sense of duty and a tacit hint of shame, mindful of the fact that white policemen decades before him didn\u2019t exactly exercise all due diligence in probing the disappearance and murder of a young Indigenous girl, Charlotte Hayes. The investigation, we learn, was slack and skimpy, disproportionately and aggressively focused on Indigenous men as suspects. Small wonder that those in Limbo who remember the fiasco are loath to talk when another pale out-of-towner comes sniffing around. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The victim\u2019s brother Charlie (an excellent Rob Collins) regards Travis with particularly cold wariness: Charlotte\u2019s murder, it appears, is one of many familial and cultural losses that has set his life forever off-track. His world-weary sister Emma (Natasha Wanganeen) is less hostile, but still skeptical that reopening this wound will amount to much. A single mother making a modest living at the local diner, she\u2019s also assumed care of Charlie\u2019s two children, and life in the present tense is hard enough without dredging up the past. She\u2019s intrigued, however, by this gruff stranger who seems to carry his own burden of sorrow, and they build a tentative, not-quite-romantic rapport, beautifully played by Baker and Wanganeen with a mutually watchful reserve that haltingly cracks into vulnerable candor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Car trouble, meanwhile, compels Travis to extend this seemingly hopeless case review, temporarily swapping his executive sedan for a wide, rusty Dodge that sets him to the whole town\u2019s rhythm of slowed decay. And so he goes exploring its crevices, permitting Sen ample space and time to burrow into the geographic and atmospheric curiosities of this eerie, wind-licked landscape. Here, many buildings are carved into the rocks or underground \u2014 production designer Adam Head makes much of the sparse, grotto-like menace of Travis\u2019 fleapit motel \u2014 while local caves hold burnt-out secrets, invisible in the striking aerial shots that present Limbo as little more than a lunar quilt of craters and sand swirls. Every mineral seems to have long ago been mined from the place; locals must live on the dirt that remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A virtual one-man band as a filmmaker, writer-director Sen also takes sole credit for cinematography, editing, music (sparse) and visual effects (sparser still). This degree of control yields less a sense of indulgence, however, than of crisp, exacting discipline \u2014 best demonstrated in the director\u2019s clean, spartan but mood-drenched black-and-white lensing, in which no empty space feels emotionally uncharged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The visual language of film noir tends to give the truth a place to hide; here, caverns of shadow deliver the goods, but there\u2019s just as much to uncover in broad, punishing daylight: Many shots stress the high, wide sky and dusty sprawl of scrub surrounding this town of tragedy, where individual lives are rendered puny and throwaway against the elements. How can Travis hope to make a dent here? Baker\u2019s grainily compelling performance carries \u201cLimbo,\u201d however, by leaning into that futility. Sturdy and still, becoming one with his aridly dejected surroundings, he tensely waits for any break in the silence, knowing his complicity in echoed history. \u201cLimbo\u201d joins a long line of fine Australian films taking to the desert to disinter racial trauma, to rebury the bones with more care and awareness, but also enduring fury.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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