Movie: Wind River
Starring: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner
Writer / Director: Taylor Sheridan
Rated: R
On September 14, I chose Wind River to kick off my MoviePass adventure, heading to an early morning showing at Cinema Arts Theatre. After logging into the MoviePass app on my phone, I activated my newly arrived card, selected the movie showing, and headed into the theater to buy my ticket. The theater employee at the ticket window recognized my bright red MoviePass and asked me what I thought of it. Since it worked when he ran up the transaction, I said it was great so far!
Wind River is an intense, violent, and heart-breaking movie about the rape and murder of a young Native American woman. Jeremy Renner plays Cory Lambert, a hunter employed by the Fish and Wildlife Service to cull predators that pose a threat to livestock in the area. While tracking a mountain lion, Lambert finds the body. He calls the crime into the local authorities, but the reservation has little in the way of resources to solve major crimes. The FBI sends a young, inexperienced agent, Jane Banner (played by Elizabeth Olsen), in from Las Vegas to assess the situation, but it's immediately apparent that she's in over her head. She turns to Lambert for help, hoping his tracking skills and local knowledge will help her solve a case that may otherwise fall through the cracks.
The deadly Wyoming winter looms over every effort to solve the crime, and as an outsider, Jane stumbles into situations for which she has no context. The overwhelming sense of despair and hopelessness on the reservation, the foregone conclusion that no help can be expected, weighs heavily as it becomes clear that this is not the first time tragedy has struck this community.
Wind River deals with parental grief and sexual violence, making it hard to watch in parts, but it never resorts to sensationalism or cheap sentimentality. Renner gives a subtly brilliant performance as Lambert, whose ties to the case go deep, and Gil Birmingham is powerfully affecting as the murdered woman's grieving father. This is not a perfect movie, and the resolution may not satisfy all viewers, but it is not one I'll easily forget.
Starring: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner
Writer / Director: Taylor Sheridan
Rated: R
On September 14, I chose Wind River to kick off my MoviePass adventure, heading to an early morning showing at Cinema Arts Theatre. After logging into the MoviePass app on my phone, I activated my newly arrived card, selected the movie showing, and headed into the theater to buy my ticket. The theater employee at the ticket window recognized my bright red MoviePass and asked me what I thought of it. Since it worked when he ran up the transaction, I said it was great so far!
Wind River is an intense, violent, and heart-breaking movie about the rape and murder of a young Native American woman. Jeremy Renner plays Cory Lambert, a hunter employed by the Fish and Wildlife Service to cull predators that pose a threat to livestock in the area. While tracking a mountain lion, Lambert finds the body. He calls the crime into the local authorities, but the reservation has little in the way of resources to solve major crimes. The FBI sends a young, inexperienced agent, Jane Banner (played by Elizabeth Olsen), in from Las Vegas to assess the situation, but it's immediately apparent that she's in over her head. She turns to Lambert for help, hoping his tracking skills and local knowledge will help her solve a case that may otherwise fall through the cracks.
The deadly Wyoming winter looms over every effort to solve the crime, and as an outsider, Jane stumbles into situations for which she has no context. The overwhelming sense of despair and hopelessness on the reservation, the foregone conclusion that no help can be expected, weighs heavily as it becomes clear that this is not the first time tragedy has struck this community.
Wind River deals with parental grief and sexual violence, making it hard to watch in parts, but it never resorts to sensationalism or cheap sentimentality. Renner gives a subtly brilliant performance as Lambert, whose ties to the case go deep, and Gil Birmingham is powerfully affecting as the murdered woman's grieving father. This is not a perfect movie, and the resolution may not satisfy all viewers, but it is not one I'll easily forget.
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