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Surely pushing yourself like that, riding that far and placing a rock is a perverse act? There's a clear parallel with him and with what cars have been doing on the salt flats for decades: pursuing speed records, laying dow their own stones for the next one to strive to beat. It talks of obsession, of competitiveness, of (vain) ambition, but which obscure more normal pursuits of subsistence. I think you can call that perverse
Plus I thought at one point, 'suicide' as he begins to struggle. You ride yourself to a standstill in a desert, how are you going to get back? I'm not sure the filmmaker meant to express that, but it does look a self-destructive act