Review of Wind River (2017) by Valerie B — 02 Sep 2017
This standard American propaganda film features an archetypal hunter and a damsel in distress. It's hard to judge Elizabeth Olsen's skill as an actress because she's in such an impossible role: be a highly competent woman (FBI agent) who doesn't know anything and so asks a Hunter to help her. Puhlease! The male characters don't have much of a chance either. Spoiler alert: the white working class from the Department of Energy did it!
However, the plot does succeed as a thrilling mystery. And the Wind River reservation does succeed as a setting for our dysfunctional American bureaucracy. And the solution to the "problem" works too: cooperation brings justice. But I needed more believable characters, and less gratuitous violence.
This review of Wind River (2017) was written by Valerie B on 02 Sep 2017.
Wind River has generally received very positive reviews.
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