Review of Meek's Cutoff (2011) by Roddy T — 07 Apr 2011
Kelly Reichardt keeps getting better as a director, and she and writer Jon Raymond craft a story of hopeless historical fiction that is beautiful and haunting. Sure there's some political context to read into it - Meek being a surrogate for the former Bush administration leading the trusting (and some very doubtful) to the wilderness, with a key line "We're not lost, we're just finding our way" - but it mostly carries a wonderful 'trance' quality with how its shot, those desert spaces with people wandering without any real direction, searching for water and a sense of place while following a weird (half)naked Indian.
It's like if Aguirre was a Western, only with a slightly less-kooky "leader" at its center and a take on nature that is just as disturbed.
This review of Meek's Cutoff (2011) was written by Roddy T on 07 Apr 2011.
Meek's Cutoff has generally received positive reviews.
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