Wind River (otherwise known as...being a little late to the show)
Wind River was released in 2017, I missed it on the big screen, but it was on my radar, because it was from the writer & now director Taylor Sheridan, and he had created an intense emotional drama, set in a frozen wilderness in Wyoming on a Native American Reservation called Wind River.
A young woman is found dead in the snow by Jeremy Renner's Cory Lambert who is a veteran tracker for the Fish & Wildlife Service. So he knows the land better than anyone. (Renner's best performance so far).
And when the investigation deepens enough to bring in the FBI, Elizabeth Olsen's rookie Jane Banner (no relation to Bruce Banner aka Incredible Hulk) #Avengersreference is brought in to investigate.
The film's location is a presence in the film that becomes it's own character. The snowy mountains of Wyoming is uncompromising, especially to Jane who is the nearest FBI agent flown in from Las Vegas, so she has to borrow clothes from Cory's daughter who passed away two years ago, (under similar circumstances to the current dead girl.)
The people are blunt and uncompromising, rude, uncouth and unhelpful. They are in the middle of nowhere, there is not a lot to do. The men tend to fall into bad circumstances, drugs and crime.
While the crime scene is the focus of the film and finding the killer, the mystery is solved mid way through, via a flashback. It is a terrible flashback, it doesn't give it a filter, it's scary and terrifying and sickening. But that is the point and because it flits back and forward to the present and to the past without any transition, you're working out the mystery yourself.
The action is never constant and consistent in Sheridan's films, they are well placed and palpable with tension, see Sicario and I'd imagine Hell or High Water.
There is a showdown like a kick in the teeth that you have to re-watch again to fully understand who is who and what the hell is going on.
In America everyone has guns, it's their law, it's written in their constitution so everyone is an enemy of the law or an enemy of mankind.
You find out that the majority of the people who are not on the side of the law, broke the law in the mystery, so you know they deserve what's coming.
But it hits you hard, like a gut punch. The adrenaline is pumping.
The ending is satisfying, with an emotional resonance that leaves you feeling like you've lost someone and something. And that is one powerful film, that rarely does something like that. Especially from Hollywood.
Follow me @mysticemeg13 on Twitter.
(Please go watch Sicario, for an intense, beautifully filmed, written thriller (from Taylor Sheridan) & powerhouse performances from Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin & Benicio Del Toro. The cinematography is also on point from Roger Deakins. Directed by modern genius Denis Villeneuve, also the score by Johann Johannson #RIP. The film is incredibly perfect, you can tell I loved it haha).
A young woman is found dead in the snow by Jeremy Renner's Cory Lambert who is a veteran tracker for the Fish & Wildlife Service. So he knows the land better than anyone. (Renner's best performance so far).
And when the investigation deepens enough to bring in the FBI, Elizabeth Olsen's rookie Jane Banner (no relation to Bruce Banner aka Incredible Hulk) #Avengersreference is brought in to investigate.
The film's location is a presence in the film that becomes it's own character. The snowy mountains of Wyoming is uncompromising, especially to Jane who is the nearest FBI agent flown in from Las Vegas, so she has to borrow clothes from Cory's daughter who passed away two years ago, (under similar circumstances to the current dead girl.)
The people are blunt and uncompromising, rude, uncouth and unhelpful. They are in the middle of nowhere, there is not a lot to do. The men tend to fall into bad circumstances, drugs and crime.
While the crime scene is the focus of the film and finding the killer, the mystery is solved mid way through, via a flashback. It is a terrible flashback, it doesn't give it a filter, it's scary and terrifying and sickening. But that is the point and because it flits back and forward to the present and to the past without any transition, you're working out the mystery yourself.
The action is never constant and consistent in Sheridan's films, they are well placed and palpable with tension, see Sicario and I'd imagine Hell or High Water.
There is a showdown like a kick in the teeth that you have to re-watch again to fully understand who is who and what the hell is going on.
In America everyone has guns, it's their law, it's written in their constitution so everyone is an enemy of the law or an enemy of mankind.
You find out that the majority of the people who are not on the side of the law, broke the law in the mystery, so you know they deserve what's coming.
But it hits you hard, like a gut punch. The adrenaline is pumping.
The ending is satisfying, with an emotional resonance that leaves you feeling like you've lost someone and something. And that is one powerful film, that rarely does something like that. Especially from Hollywood.
Follow me @mysticemeg13 on Twitter.
(Please go watch Sicario, for an intense, beautifully filmed, written thriller (from Taylor Sheridan) & powerhouse performances from Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin & Benicio Del Toro. The cinematography is also on point from Roger Deakins. Directed by modern genius Denis Villeneuve, also the score by Johann Johannson #RIP. The film is incredibly perfect, you can tell I loved it haha).
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