Re: The Big Wait

In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB  <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Synopsis
 
In a remote desert town in Australia, population two, a couple manages
an emergency airport and keeps vacant cottages in pristine condition,
waiting for visitors who never seem to arrive.

Nullabor Plain town of Forrest. There's a huge irony right there in the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_Plain
    The Nullarbor Plain (/ˈnʌlərbɔːr/ NUL-ər-bor; Latin: nulla feminine
    of nullus 'no' and arbor 'tree'[2]) is part of the area of flat,
    almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia,
    located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria
    Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single exposure of
    limestone bedrock, and occupies an area of about 200,000 square
    kilometres (77,000 sq mi).[3] At its widest point, it stretches
    about 1,100 kilometres (684 mi) from east to west across the border
    between South Australia and Western Australia.

A town called forrest with nearly no trees for hundreds of miles (or
kilometres, doesn't matter here).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest,_Western_Australia
    Forrest is a former small railway settlement and stopping place on
    the Nullarbor Plain, 85 kilometres (53 miles) west of the Western
    Australia / South Australia state border, established in 1916 during
    construction of the Trans-Australian Railway. It is on the part of
    the railway that is the longest -- at 478.193 kilometres (297.135
    miles) -- stretch of straight railway line in the world.[note 1] In
    the 2021 census, the settlement and surrounding area had "no people
    or a very low population".[3][4]

    The settlement was named after Sir John Forrest, the explorer who
    became the first Premier of Western Australia.[5]

Aha.

Anyway, Nullabor Plain always makes me think of the truck driver trying
to cross it to deliver meat during a strike that caused a shortage.
Along the way there's a serial killer to contend with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadgames
    Shot on location in the Nullarbor Plain and in Melbourne, the budget
    of $1.75 million was the highest ever for an Australian film at that
    time.

Elijah
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has watched a lot of Aussie films