A long-haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
Special Agent Matti
You don't have to be a bogan to like big trucks, but it helps. Prime Mover is a small film about big Australian spaces and the little Aussie battlers who try to fill them. Bad hair, hard men, harder women, blokes who have trouble expressing themselves, people trying to make an honest buck, folks for whom honesty is just a word, dust. It ain't pretty.
Fortunately, Michael Dorman is pretty. It's always good to have a bit of eye-candy on the big screen. Unfortunately, he's prettier than his leading lady, Emily Barclay, with whom he previously played Romeo in Suburban mayhem. (He was prettier then, too.) He's also still making the wrong decisions and getting the wrong girl preggers.
Prime Mover (it refers to the part of a truck that has the cab and engine, to which one can attach trailers) is an odd little film, especially when the camera starts seeing things from Thomas' "artistic" point of view (see below). The story is not hugely surprising (how many stories can be written about a man and a truck?) although David Caesar does manage to get to the end of the film at the same time as his characters. You don't need to see this film but there's no reason not to.
The Australia, drama, romance movie Prime Mover is directed by David Caesar and stars Michael Dorman, Emily Barclay, Ben Mendelsohn.
M (Mature themes, violence and coarse language)
99 minutes (1:39 hours)
Film: 12 November 2009
