Posted on 09/04/2017 10:11:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Good flick. Couldn't get past the political statements once again. The hopelessness of life on indian reservations, federal indifference, and the final statement where there are no records kept of those missing women. It's our fault.
The bad guys were federal contract security employees, gang banging drunks working on the reservation. No women around except the unfortunate one. The good guys were other gov't employees. The drug use and living in squalor was emphasized. Joe Bobb says check it out.
The reservations and the BIA need to go away.
They’re just concentration camps that vote Democrat.
Definitely PC as far as the good guy/bad guy dichotomy, but surprisingly un-pc at various moments. I give it a thumbs-up.
I disagree. This thing was nothing but a leftist virtue signaling movie where the only TRULY bad guys were white guys.
The whole message was moronic because they throw up the placard at the end about how Native American women disappearances aren’t tracked.
But the movie never ever goes into the way of that or even points that out except for a throw away line that the Indians don’t want the Feds on their land and they’re so poor because the white man keeps em down that they don’t have the resources to do the investigation themselves.
There’s LOTS of injustices that they could’ve explored here in an honest fashion but ignored to make a PC movie. The only thing that saves the movie is Jeremy Renners performance and the police chief (I’ve loved him in everything he’s done) otherwise skip it
Andrew Jackson is considered a monster by many. His belief was the only viable solution was to treat indians the way losing sides have always been treated historically. That is, absorption and forced assimilation. I have been on and around several reservations and every one was just a horrid hopeless place. Maybe Jackson was right.
It IS our fault, at least as far as the federal government is concerned. Reservations are ungovernable under the current laws.
The movie lost me when the local cops got in the close-up gunfight with the government security contractors-conspiricies. Oil drilling. What does that tell you? Gotta hand it to Hollywood. They know how to set the narrative, Never saw indian women so attractive except in the movies. I still say check it out. Matinee when it’s hot outside.
Indian Casinos to the rescue.
But instead, I went to see the movie strictly for entertainment. Not looking for perceived political statements. Besides, you can find that in real life all over the place, so its bound to show up in some movie plots and scripts.
If you go to the movies looking for offenses to your sensibilities, then I'm sure you'll find them if you're looking for it.
Wind River is one of the better movies out lately. Lots of action and drama. Engaging in it's plot.
I enjoyed the movie for its entertainment value and I recommend it highly.
You are probably a rarity.....someone who has been on reservations & seen some first hand. Your opinion....why are they such a complete mess?
You’ve got a pretty low bar for entertainment.
The ancient empires such as the Assyrian and Babylonian did exactly what Jackson did to the Indians. Their lands were forfeit after conquest and the survivors were exiled to unfamiliar and often hostile lands.
I don’t give my money to Hollyweird.
I don’t give my money to Hollyweird.
But you set a pretty low bar yourself.
“The ancient empires such as the Assyrian and Babylonian did exactly what Jackson did to the Indians”
This is true but more often then not losing sides are absorbed and eventually they assimilate. In Jacksons writings this is what he thought. Of course what he actually did was what you described for whatever reasons.
Probably the political realities of the time.
“Couldn’t get past the political statements once again.”......
Precisely why I DO NOT intend to go to see ANY new movies. The only thing they understand is money and when that stops flowing to them for their “garbage”, perhaps they will stop their hate for everything that made this country great.
Your opinion....why are they such a complete mess?
It’s a pretty long list. Above all there is just an atmosphere of hopelessness and low expectations that permeates the air. They just get by on land they were deposited on, little if any enterprise. There is some joy but is muted by no expectation of a better life coming down the road. Unless you are a tribe leader running a Casino of course.
They are far from the starving abused indigenous people the media (and Indians) like to portray.
Oh, and they have casinos that rake in billions.
And if a reservation crosses the US/mexico border they can come and go on their own land and don't have to use official points of entry.
They like to drink. . .all the time.
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