{"id":6815,"date":"2017-09-29T06:47:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:29:06","slug":"wind-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6815","title":{"rendered":"Wind River"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wind<\/a>I know a lot of people who would not like this remarkable movie, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan (trailer<\/a>). If you don\u2019t like violence, you might as well stop reading now. If you oppose hunting, you can stop. If thoughts of a child being lost are too troubling, stop.<\/p>\n

But if you want to see a powerful tale about achieving retribution despite the forces aligned against that possibility, you may appreciate Wind River<\/em>. So many easy mistakes this movie could have made, but didn\u2019t. There was no unconvincing romance, despite the respect and understated chemistry between the main characters. There were no long quasi-editorials about the plight of reservation Indians. The filmmakers show you that. There was no pretending that people simply get over soul-wounds by the next scene. These characters carry their pain with them and it helps shape who they are and what they will do.<\/p>\n

What the filmmakers do give you is beautiful, treacherous mountain scenery (the Wind River Indian Reservation is in Wyoming, though the film was shot in Utah), where blizzards are blinding and it\u2019s so cold that breathing can burst a person\u2019s lungs. They give you snowmobiles racing across the fields, forests whose sounds could be branches breaking or a family of stalking cougars.<\/p>\n

Best of all, they give you several profound cinematic moments, achieved not when the characters say a lot, but when they say almost nothing. \u201cAt times, Sheridan has his characters spell out a little too clearly what they\u2019re thinking and feeling . . . but the words are so beautiful and come from such a place of deep truth, it\u2019s hard not to be moved,\u201d says Christy Lemire<\/a> in her review for RogerEbert.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to say too much about the actual story, so as not to take away from your experiencing it fresh. Suffice it to say it\u2019s about the investigation of a murder; it\u2019s about gun culture and drug culture and their inevitable consequences; and it\u2019s about survival. And it\u2019s about loving and safeguarding your children. Once you have them, a father says, \u201cYou can\u2019t blink. Not once. Not ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Put everything else aside and concentrate on the fine acting. Jeremy Renner plays the protagonist, fish & wildlife employee Cory Lambert (\u201cI hunt predators\u201d) who has many reasons for trying to solve this killing; Elizabeth Olsen is the FBI agent who learns more in a week in the snow than in her FBI Academy training, that\u2019s for sure; Graham Greene is the laconic, seen-it-all tribal police chief; and Gil Birmingham is the father of the murdered girl.<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating: 86% ; audiences: 92%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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