Last Ride - Some shackles can be loosened

Movie
German title	Last Ride - Some shackles can be loosened
Original title	Last ride
Country of production	Australia
original language	English
Publishing year	2009
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Glendyn Ivin
script	Mac Gudgeon
production	Nicholas Cole ; Antonia Barnard
music	Paul Charlier
camera	Greig Fraser
cut	Jack Hutchings
occupation
	Hugo Weaving : Kev; Tom Russell : Chook; Anita Hegh : Maryanne; John Brumpton : Max; Sonya Suares : Dr. Boat; Kelton Pell : Ranger;

Last Ride - Some shackles can be released (Original title: Last Ride ) is an Australian film drama and the feature film - debut by director Glendyn Ivin . The film is based on the novel The Last Ride by Denise Young , starring Hugo Weaving and young Australian actor Tom Russell.

action

Young Chook arrives at a gas station with his father, Kev, where Kev trims his hair and beard before continuing their journey until Kev parks her car in a deserted property and removes the license plates. After a night in the open air, they visit Kev's ex-girlfriend, Maryanne. Kev persuades them to allow them breakfast. Maryanne then confronts Kev because she fears that Kev will be in trouble again, but Kev rebels and tries to get closer to her so that they sleep together - on the premise that Kev then disappears. When Chook is bathing, he is visited by Maryanne, who, at his request, tells how she met Kev. When Maryanne asks the boy for the phone number of Max, who she, Kev and Chook had lived with, Max replies if she could call him to see if he was okay. He had tried to call him shortly before but was interrupted by Kev. A little later, Kev traveled on with Chook and asked Maryanne not to tell anyone about her visit.

Eventually they break into a small, seemingly deserted museum. In conversation with his father, Chook asks about Max and why Kev hit him, but he reassures him that Max is fine. He then leaves Chook to go shopping in the nearby town, seeing the news of a murder on television, but being knocked out in a brawl as he leaves a bar. The next morning, Chook is discovered by a woman visiting the museum. When Chook learns that she is a doctor, he asks her to fly to someone to help him - Max - but Kev's arrival ends the conversation. He ties the woman up and continues with Chook in her car. Their journey takes them to a national park, where Kev sets up camp in the forest. There Chook remembers Max again, whereupon he pulls a cell phone out of the car, but cannot make a call due to the missing network. Shortly thereafter, they are tracked down by a ranger, whom Kev persuades to allow them another night in the national park. During the night Chook finds make-up utensils in the car and puts on make-up, but when Kev discovers this the next morning, he hits him several times with his belt before sending him off to clean himself. Shortly afterwards, at the pool, Kev visits Chook, who is now friendly again and teaches him to float on his back in the water; a first start to teach Chook to swim. When they return, their car has been discovered by the police, so Kev steals a new car at the nearby campsite and continues with Chook.

After some difficulties on their overland trip, they reach a salt lake , which Chook thinks back to her last night with Max when he went to bed with Chook and was beaten up by Kev. When he asks his father about it, the latter explains to him that Max is dead, whereupon Chook hits Kev in a fit of anger, who then exposes him and drives on alone. When Kev returns, Chook refuses to get into the car with him and continues on foot to the shore. There, Kev gets a rifle and food into his possession, before they are stored near a lake after a further journey, where Chook expresses his concern about their situation. A little later, the boy went outside the camp and sent a photo of his location to the police on his cell phone. Kev begins to worry about the boy’s whereabouts, but when he looks for him, he falls and injures himself. Since his father can no longer move, Chook shoots the rifle at the tires of their car before hiding again near their camp. The next morning police cars approach their whereabouts, whereupon Chook goes to his father, who tells him to go to the police for Maryanne. When he learns that Chook brought the police in, he explains that he did the right thing before sending him away. Chook leaves the rifle with Kev, who takes his own life with it. Chook sees his dead father and then runs to the nearby lake, where he plunges into the water and threatens to drown until he can float on the surface on his back.

production

The production of Last Ride began on 16 June 2008, was filmed by 21 July 2008 to 30 August of the same year. The film was shot entirely in Australia, with mainly shot in South Australia . The Flinders Ranges and the villages of Port Wakefield , Port Gawler , Port Augusta , Quorn , Leigh Creek and Pimba were among the filming locations, and recordings were also made at the Wilpena Pound rock formation . Lake Gairdner , which is Australia's third largest salt lake, was used to film the lake scenes . The production of the film was supported by the South Australian Film Corporation, the state funding company Film Victoria, Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival. Sales took Madman Entertainment for Australia, Music Box Films in the USA , dtp entertainment in Germany.

The film premiered on June 7, 2009 at the Sydney Film Festival before Last Ride opened in Australian theaters on July 2, 2009 with limited release. The film did not hit theaters outside of Australia, but has been shown at various film festivals including the Toronto , Pusan and Palm Springs International Film Festival . On February 19, 2011, the film premiered on Hungarian television. In Germany , the film was released under the title Last Ride - Some Shackles Can Be Loosened on DVD on May 26th, 2011 , and then on Blu-ray Disc on September 1st, 2011 .

reception

Hugo Weaving , cast member of Kev, was nominated for two awards

In the Australian television program At the Movies by film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, the film was awarded 4 and 4.5 stars out of 5. The film received very good ratings on the Rotten Tomatoes film review page . Thus achieved Last Ride the Fresh-rating of 100%, while in the Internet Movie Database received an average of 6.5 out of 10 possible points. According to the lexicon of international film , Last Ride is an “intense, convincingly staged family drama that describes, in a meditative way, the process of approaching two very different people.” Cinema praises the acting performance of the main actors, but criticizes that “their engaging Performances would be the only strength of this drawn-out film adaptation of Denise Young's bestseller of the same name ” .

Awards

The film was nominated for several awards in Australia. Director Glendyn Ivin was nominated for the ADG Award , Hugo Weaving for his portrayal of Kev for the AFI Award and the FCCA Award . Tom Russell was nominated for the Young Artist Award 2010 and Greig Fraser for the FCCA Award in the category "Best Cinematography". However, the film could not win any of the awards.

Abroad, the film won the Black Pearl Award in the “Best New Narrative Director” category at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival and received the jury award at the Rome International Film Festival.