IMDb plot summary: A veteran tracker with the Fish and Wildlife Service helps to investigate the murder of a young Native American woman, and uses the case as a means of seeking redemption for an earlier act of irresponsibility which ended in tragedy.
Directed by Taylor Sheridan. Starring Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, and Gil Birmingham.
So I'd love Hollywood to keep making movies about modern Native American life BUT they've gotta find a way to do it without making all the protagonists white. Like, why is Jeremy Renner's character not Native American? There's no reason for that at all except casting having a bankable star, and it really diminishes the story and the themes. It allows the viewer to keep this world at a distance and never really get inside someone else's experience. I just wanted to see more of the girl and her parents, but instead we get Jeremy Renner going all Liam Neeson, which is not compelling and not new. Disappointing.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Wind River < Gifted
Wind River > Drive Me Crazy
Wind River < Birdman of Alcatraz
Wind River > A Man Called Peter
Wind River > What Lies Beneath
Wind River < Anything Else
Wind River < SpaceCamp
Wind River < Star Trek: Nemesis
Wind River < Legend
Wind River < Les Miserables (1935)
Wind River > Defending Your Life
Final spot: #1790 out of 2732.
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