Synopsis
Nothing is harder to track than the truth.
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
2017 Directed by Taylor Sheridan
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Jeremy Renner Elizabeth Olsen Gil Birmingham Kelsey Asbille Teo Briones Tantoo Cardinal Matthew Del Negro Hugh Dillon Julia Jones James Jordan Eric Lange Martin Sensmeier Jon Bernthal Graham Greene Apesanahkwat Althea Sam Tokala Black Elk Tyler Laracca Shayne J. Cullen Dallin Tusieseina Austin R. Grant Ian Bohen Gabe Casdorph Mason D. Davis Chris Romrell Blake Robbins Norman Lehnert Ian Roylance Gus Sheridan Show All…
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Ветреная река, Вiтряна рiка, Kardaki İzler, 윈드 리버, Terra Selvagem, Muerte misteriosa, Meurtre à Wind River
i’m willing to ignore how poorly written the women characters are because its overarching message about the prevalence of violence against native women is nowhere near discussed as much as it should be.
however, i can’t ignore the fact that the protagonist is ... a white man. worse, it’s jeremy renner. if the lead was a native woman, even a native man, this would’ve been revolutionary. i understand that there is pressure to cast famous (white) actors in order to get funding from studios, but is it worth undermining your film’s political meaning?
It made me cry and then I went up to taylor Sheridan my new favorite man alive aka a good screenwriter and director and told him
He
Made
Me
Cry and he said that's a goal and then I asked him if I could hug him and he said absolutely and it was precious
The movie The Snowman wishes it was.
Taylor Sheridan is one of my favorite people in Hollywood. He writes mature movies with adult themes for an adult audience. After killing it with screenplays for both Sicario and Hell or High Water; he takes it up a level with writing and now directing, Wind River. A murder mystery set in the snow hills of Wyoming.
Mr Sheridan uses themes he’s familiar with. A naive at times FBI Agent in over her head. (Sicario) A story about the poor working class and their daily struggles. (Hell or High Water) With Wind River, he makes his Agent more confident in her decisions and actions, and he explores the hardships of the day-to-day life…
Speechless.
During the entire final 25 minutes I sat there stiff as a board with my jaw on the floor. Some of the most intense stuff I've ever seen in a movie.
Wind River has compelling characters, engaging story, beautiful visuals, and outstanding performances.
Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and Graham Greene all knock it out of the freaken park. If Renner doesn't get an Oscar Nomination, it will be an absolute travesty.
You would think Taylor Sheridan has been directing for YEARS!
women are a fucking force. elizabeth olsen is an angel. jon bernthal is an angel. SHE RAN SIX MILES IN THE SNOW. I FUCKING. BYE.
if you put a gun to taylor sheridan’s head and told him to write a good female lead he would die right there on the spot
it's easy to see why people latch onto taylor sheridan, his macho relentlessness and uncompromising violence is the exact kind of stuff that should appeal to my lizard brain tendency toward exploitation but without someone working against his material, finding interesting ways to frame or visualize it (see: mackenzie's sense dignity and tragedy—and keen awareness of performance—in Hell or High Water or villeneuve's lean, existential translation of Sicario's chaotic abyss) his writing is revealed to be the strained genre posturing that it is. with the exception of a particularly savage shootout in the back half this is gross in the name of faux-importance; the most telling scene is the embarrassing prologue that compares a young native woman to sheep, accidentally…
Both a powerhouse directorial debut and another absolutely stunning piece of writing from Taylor Sheridan, Wind River is without question one of the best films of the year thus far, with well-written and fully developed characters, excellent performances, fantastic atmosphere, superb tension, well-staged set pieces, gripping direction, strong pacing, sweeping cinematography, and brilliantly constructed storytelling.
“You’d think folks would realize this is sheep country,” a man chortles in the opening scenes of “Wind River,” minutes after an introductory scene in which a local man named Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) obliterates a pack of wolves with his sniper rifle. It’s a long while before the implication of this throwaway line becomes clear, although anyone who’s seen Taylor Sheridan’s tersely didactic “Hell or High Water” should already know that the emerging scribe — here directing one of his own scripts for the first time — doesn’t really do throwaway lines.
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Feels both over-written and sloppily directed. Offers a flowery screenplay while the camera isn't even on a tripod half the time. Wastes its setting too. I feel like Villeneuve and Deakins would've capitalized on the landscapes. That third-act flashback seemed like it's supposed to be a gut-wrenching, pivotal moment, but all it does is show something in detail that's already been implied. Felt unnecessary and gross. However, Elizabeth Olsen turns in a great performance, as does Jeremy Renner, and the final few minutes are really emotional.
A lot of my problems with this film can stem from Jeremy Renner’s line “My family’s people were forced here, stuck here for a century.” Sheridan has made a film about violence against Native American women and shows it to us through the POV of two white people. The film opens with a cut between a shot of a Native American woman running through the snow at night and a shot of livestock, a statement of intent on the way Native American women are treated, and then proceeds to dismiss them throughout the entire film. Making Renner’s character Native American would go a long way but Sheridan clearly knows that his strengths are in writing masculine white men, something that…
i usually just rate these based on how good elizabeth olsen was but i also really enjoyed the story this time. wish they cast literally any other man tho
Definitely some white savior bullshit but it means well in trying to raise awareness about violence towards Native American women. That aside, a very well written crime story that's told well. I suggest watching this on something that's not Pluto tv so that emotional scenes aren't suddenly interrupted by an ad for Sketcher's.
Writing gives me a headache...
Oh man what a difficult movie! It’s so close to being great, and there truly are parts that are. The lead up to the final shoot out is tense, and the final conversation is emotional.
But Jeremy Renner plays the white Jesus.
And those are never fun.
Sircario tackles complicated race relations with subtly, but Wind River falters due to an almost entirely inept cast of characters, only for Renner to know how to do everything.
Wind River proves that while old school Westerns are fun, I’m not sure they’re what we need anymore.
“You can't steer from the pain. If you do, you'll rob yourself. You'll rob yourself of every memory.”
a story about natives told by white people, based on a true story yes but when the message of the film is how native women go missing without record and your film follows two white people and we don’t meet the victim until the end of the film something is wrong. for how much of the film she is in i don’t quite know what the rookie olsen plays specifically adds to the film other than just that, the rookie agent who is trying to catch the perpetrators. besides the movies premise altogether this would have been a much more engaging story if they 1. utilised the vast landscape and truly put the characters into perspective of the vast landscape…
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