Movie Wind River

[0ddl0t]

They were guarding against kill joys who don’t understand movies are entertainment and sometimes use improbable pretexts to move stories along.

I'm more willing to suspend disbelief when it doesn't coincide with a political agenda. Strip away the guns and Wind River is typical left-wing Hollywood fare criticizing rural lifestyles and calling for bigger government.

The villains could just as easily have been truck drivers, mechanics, or (statistically the most likely) fellow Native Americans. But they were gun-toting blue collar workers in the mineral extraction business. And the solution is apparently for the admittedly ill-prepared FBI to double-down enforcement on reservations?

[Medusa]

We watched this tonight. Pretty ok movie.

[OnionsAndDragons]

It was, but lots of rigs are on reservations. The tribes lease the rights to the oil companies in exchange for a percentage -- they wouldn't want to mess with that gravy-train (aside from sometimes requiring a certain percentage of oil workers be hired from that tribe).

I wasn’t implying expectation of trouble from the indigenous people. Just to be clear.

I was thinking more along the lines of valuable stuff, low local LE resources, possibly wanting a group to keep roughnecks mostly in line, etc.


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[JHC]

A film with its own thread?

Had to check it out.

A fine film.

Superb writing.

"Just take the pain Martin. You hear me? You take it." (in context)

[LittleLebowski]

I'm more willing to suspend disbelief when it doesn't coincide with a political agenda. Strip away the guns and Wind River is typical left-wing Hollywood fare criticizing rural lifestyles and calling for bigger government.

The villains could just as easily have been truck drivers, mechanics, or (statistically the most likely) fellow Native Americans. But they were gun-toting blue collar workers in the mineral extraction business. And the solution is apparently for the admittedly ill-prepared FBI to double-down enforcement on reservations?

Meh, I'm about 95% certain that the writer is one of us given is his work on the Sicario series, this movie, and the Yellowstone series. I know it is indeed normal for Hollywood to have an anti white male/anti rural bias, but I'm very sure that Tayler Sheridan is one of us.

https://www.star-telegram.com/entert...164729822.html

[mmc45414]

I'm very sure that Tayler Sheridan is one of us.

I like the way the star of the movie is just quietly lurking in the background...

[0ddl0t]

Meh, I'm about 95% certain that the writer is one of us given is his work on the Sicario series, this movie, and the Yellowstone series. I know it is indeed normal for Hollywood to have an anti white male/anti rural bias, but I'm very sure that Tayler Sheridan is one of us.

https://www.star-telegram.com/entert...164729822.html

I haven't seen Sicario or Yellowstone, but Hell or High Water was pretty liberal themed: dying mother couldn't get the medical care she needed with her evil insurance so the evil bank gives her a loan she can't repay - both problems just begging for big government fixes! Bonus: all the armed civilians were ineffectual doofuses/liabilities throughout the movie.

[LittleLebowski]

I haven't seen Sicario or Yellowstone, but Hell or High Water was pretty liberal themed: dying mother couldn't get the medical care she needed with her evil insurance so the evil bank gives her a loan she can't repay - both problems just begging for big government fixes! Bonus: all the armed civilians were ineffectual doofuses/liabilities throughout the movie.

Not being flippant, we can just disagree and drive on

[jlw]

Does everything have to revert to politics?

[Drang]

Does everything have to revert to politics?

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