Not really resolving anything is a staple of the semi-art semi-action genre, in which signals are mixed by the image of Jeremy Renner with a shotgun on the movie poster (traditional action!) but also the presence of Real Issues. “Wind River,” then, sort of follows the art-action-drama paradigm, if such paradigm looks something like this: a.) desolate landscape portraying the depths of human depravity b.) rape scene that is so difficult to watch that it almost makes you want to turn the movie off c.) romantic subtext that is so thinly veiled as to almost not be there at all d.) ultra-sad drug abuse e.) action-movie revenge arc that is almost satisfying but leaves the audience with the feeling that nothing has really been resolved. For what it’s worth, my favorite Renner performance is still opposite Ben Affleck in “The Town.” He plays a great dirtbag. ![]() He’s entered the “thoughtful movie” phase of his career in which he will get older and more grizzled and will start doing more movies that look like this, and fewer movies that look like “Mission Impossible.” In general, this is a good development. Renner, we decided, is not handsome but is super interesting to look at. This is added-to by a great Renner performance. The film is “great” if by “great” we mean a film with beautiful cinematography that is not only visually stunning but also coheres with what we’re supposed to get out of the film. I’ll come clean in admitting that, at times, this wasn’t necessarily a thing I wanted to view on the screen. It does this by showing you in stark, un-re-touched detail how bleak and scary and vulnerable life is for these women. The movie succeeds mightily at caring about this and also getting you (the audience) to care about it as well. In a nutshell, the movie is about how nobody really cares when Native American women go missing - which is a real, shocking and devastating thing. ![]() the mountains represent how life is vast and beautiful and full of possibilities). loneliness/despair) rather than the romantic sense (i.e. Written by Taylor Sheridan, the film is set in Wyoming - but in the bleak, desolate sense of Wyoming (i.e. Jeremy Renner’s semi-action semi-murder-mystery semi-drama “Wind River” got a lot of positive raves from the smart people in my life who talk about movies. Watch Video: Elizabeth Olsen finally had a good snow experience with 'Wind River’
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