Only six people appear on screen in "Gold," and the dialogue is rare. This film reminded me of other survivalist adventures like "All is Lost" with Robert Redford (2013), "Arctic" with Mads Mikkelsen (2018) and even "The Old Man and the Sea" with Spencer Tracy (1958). nature story, oppressive heat, wild dogs and a sandstorm slowly chip away at the man's determination to survive. "Gold" is a sparse, quiet, austere drama firmly standing in the theme of naturalism. So Zac Efron's character decides to remain in the desert alone to protect the gold and wait for his fellow traveler to return with the right digging equipment. One of the men discover an enormous chunk of gold embedded in the ground, but it's too large to remove with their bare hands. In the not-too-distance future, two strangers are driving through an endless landscape of empty, rocky desert cloaked in an ominous mood with hints of war, economic collapse and destruction. Movie star and men's fitness cover model Zac Efron seems to be leaning away from brighter fluffier material like "The Greatest Showman" (2017) and "Baywatch" (2017) for darker harsher material like "Firestarter," released earlier this year, and the Ted Bundy film from 2019, "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile." His latest film, called "Gold," is another dark, grim story recently released on Hulu.
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