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Clip description
Sandy (Toni Collette) touches Hiromitsu’s face as he’s sleeping. They are in bed together. In the morning, at a petrol station, she sees a picture of his family in his wallet. He tells her that he’s married, with two children. Later, at a lookout, she moves closer to him as they both stare in awe at the landscape. She shows him an Aboriginal pictograph of a kangaroo, chiselled into the face of a rock. For the first time, he doesn’t raise his camera.
Curator’s notes
A lot of what happens in the film is unsaid, despite the constant theme of language (see clip one). Hiromitsu gives that strategy a defence here in the way he responds to her question about love. We then see a moment in which language isn’t necessary or even useful, as they are confronted by the extreme beauty from the lookout. When Toni Collette moves closer to him, we understand that she’s communicating something powerful and sincere, in a manner that she now knows he will understand.
