Sancar Seckiner Your occupation with high income is essential. Providing expensive clothes with designer labels , night life, bars with spirits and music , trips to Maldives , Mexico Bay , calm beaches of Africa by plane or liners , even by high speed catamaran without considering seasonal restrictions , open air concerts, opera , theater , all exclusive accesses which you will feel personally special , heavily depend on money. Spend money , feel better. You are only someone if you have money. JM , a Japanese consumer living an ultramodern lifestyle around the steel and glass mammoths of Tokyo, has a desire to buy a Citroen DS. He finds one in Australia via internet. He takes the flight down only to find which he has not met at the airport. He goes to the house where he thinks the owner lives only to find a red-haired blind girl, BG. The car is there in perfect condition , but owner not. However , BG knows where he is. Optimistically, only five days away. The Citroen DS is a much-loved car. It was also breathtakingly beautiful. It was the epiphany of technological and design. DS was one of the final nominees for Car of the Century. Therefor it became a part of contemporary mythology. Both JM and BG live blinkered lives. BG in an obvious sense , and JM in the sense that he leads this materialistic must-have lifestyle. He even buys the latest snorkeling equipment even though he only wears it around his small apartment by dreaming. The appeal of the car for JM was as a possession that he can collect. It instead provides a catalyst for JM & BG to break away and redeem themselves from the closed off , blinkered lifestyles they live to find atonement and their true nature. The film has wonderful vivid, unreal colors. This fits since the two leads have shut themselves off with painful souls and away from the real world when they journey into the spectacular but harsh landscape. P.S. Film based on C.L' s 18 days road trip by 4x4 car. There are two important locations : Lighthning Ridge (for The Goddess of 1967) and White Cliffs ( for The Mechanical Bird-This film is not appeared yet.)

zoe_smith I don't have time to go into in-depth considered praise for this film, but it's a film I have watched several times, and feel it deserves a pat-on-the-back. Although some of the underlying issues that the main characters have gone through are in many respects very serious and macabre, I don't think it was the director's intent to make this a depressing movie which dwells on those issues alone. Goddess is an art movie. It's designed to be visually different and controversial for its handling of subject matter. Blindness, incest, murder, dysfunctionality. An unexpected combination of events against the spectacular backdrop of the Australian outback. Ironically, the central character is blind, and cannot see all this visual beauty directly. But, she somehow finds a strength and sensitivity amongst the far from beautiful physical abuse she grown up with. Somehow with this is intertwined an ex-fashion model from Japan, and a cult car. It's an artistic celluloid canvas. I don't think an average director could put all these elements together and come off with a really watchable and intriguing movie. I love the central character's feisty, yet carefree independence. Free-spirited female viewers will love this. I think most male viewers will miss the subtlety of the movie's intent, and will therefore not enjoy it so much. Makes a really refreshing change from your regular Hollywood flick.

Max-181 I don't mind art house movies and slow moving ones, and this one certainly is, but what made the movie watchable for me was the very beautiful Rikiya Kurokawa. The honesty of his performance was worth watching. Not to mention how gorgeous he is. His love making scene with Rose Byrne's character is very sensual and hot. He is worth every minute of this picture. I look forward to seeing his do more. This was welcome introduction.

robie-1 In movies - road movies especially - we are looking for change in the characters, the relationships and possibly the balance between two themes. In the Goddess we see Deidre become more whole, at a physical level by wanting and experiencing tender lovemaking. And debatably in the end as her search to confront her dad/granddad is fulfilled - death and his death in particular no longer an obsession. What of the male character though? Although very well played and amusing - what journey does he really undertake? Has he learned to drive with his eyes closed? Learned to love a being without scales?And in looking for themes that may be juxtaposed or in tension with each other - yes there is Megacity Vs Outback, there is beauty vs ugliness, black holes vs religion, responsibility for yourself vs the excuse of horrid childhood - but for me somehow they were a bit fitted in, if any one stands out - perhaps it is travelling with a purpose vs with your eyes closed, and the frightning thing of travelling with a purpose (to buy the car or kill your dad) turns out to be: What then? What do you do next? Perhaps being able to travel with your eyes closed is a better skill after all.