Review of The Rider (2018) by Netflic — 13 May 2018
This is a second movie by young US-educated Chinese director/writer Chloé Zhao.
Where she shows life of an Indian Lakota tribe in South Dakota.
The protagonist Brady is a young but already famous bronco rodeo rider.
He lives to ride and train horses. This is something he could not live without. And then life gives him a terrible blow: he gets injured and may no longer ride horses.
The movie is slow but emotionally charged. Life is hard, and choices are even harder. Watching the movie you feel a lot of empathy towards those people. .
In the end when titles start rolling we realize that there are no professional actors in the movie, all people play themselves. And there is not a single moment when the movie felt false.
I will not be surprised to see the film in the Oscar's list.
This review of The Rider (2018) was written by Netflic on 13 May 2018.
The Rider has generally received very positive reviews.
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