Review of Wind River (2017) by Fedoresko — 25 Jun 2021

It was interesting to watch this movie after Yellowstone series... And it's so obvious how ideas which Wind River fails to express unfold in Yellowstone. Film looks like a bad compromise between scenarist and producer.

Many stories started left abandoned and unfinished. See some examples: story hints some specific problems of native americans but it is not clear what really troubles them, or it's all about living in the middle of nowhere no matter of skin color.

The main guy Cory Lambert hunts pumas thought the story and finally finds the lair, but does not kill the cubs, noticing trails on snow and being distracted... so what? Will he kill them later does it have ant matter for him? There is no answer.

Was it just cut from the screenplay? Why security personnel from drilling camp decide to offend the officials? They aren't drunk any more, don't anyone realize that they haven't got a single chance to escape responsibility? So follows scene of shooting in Tarantino's style.

.. but it is not Tarantino and scene looks artificial, alien and irrational. Was is in original scenario? And what about relations of Cory and his son? Looks like he took him to reservation and left till the end of film, you can just can completely cut all scenes with son from first half of story, and it will change nothing.

Why would you start story which you are not going to finish? And what about Jane Banner, ok at first she is portrayed like young unexperienced but highly responsible FBI agent. Finally Cory saves her from death and tells many compliments in hospital.

But what was this experience for her? Have is changed her life, her points of view, her character? Not even a hint. Later Taylor Sheridan was finally able to express his ideas in the Yellowstone, but in the Wind River he completely failed.