Wind River | Moral Of The Story (Film Analysis)
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Wind River, Taylor Sheridan's phenomenal first feature film, scatters symbolism throughout the Wyoming wilderness in which it's set; but the film's most important message lives in the poem written by Corey's deceased daughter, Emily. In this analysis, I explore the extensive list of themes to be considered in Wind River and what role the score plays in making them identifiable.
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I’m glad Natalie’s boyfriend wasn’t revealed to be the killer. I always think that cliche is a little played out in crime thrillers.
So in real life Cory wasent a killer?
@@dariandavis9721 nope
He was the one who took the trash out
@@tavish4699 wat that mean so was this case even solved?
@@dariandavis9721 yes
It’s a little cliche in real life too
The fact that the movie was filmed outdoors is paramount to the picture. No sound stages with artificial snow or digital breath plumes. It's actual cold and storms. The characters are drawn sharply with little exposition. The actors are excellent at conveying the loss and need for retribution. Sheridan's script is brilliant.
Another good movie like that is “Fast Runner”
This was a Sheridan production? I’m so glad. I saw some of the actors from Yellowstone so that was so cool. It felt like a Sheridan full from the beginning. I bet he filmed it on his ranch also.
I love Taylor Sheridan’s frontier trilogy. I love each film for different reasons. You didn’t say it but Cory is a sheep dog that protects the flock. Wind River is Jeremy Renner’s best film to date. His portrayal of grief is a raw honest interpretation of how it feels.
I have to respectfully disagree. I believe Jeremy Renner's best film was Hurt Locker, which was the first film I saw him in, but I digress.
@@RoadWarrior77he’s awesome in the town too never have I rooted for the bad guy in a movie before very good in all roles
It's clear that grief and loss are not simply concepts for Taylor Sheridan but actual experiences. The man writes from the heart.
Just came up as I searched in "The thematic parallels between Sicario and Wind River" How are you as small as you are? This is a great video. I wish more people could see your content.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed! And there is a lot of great film analysis content out there already, so I think it can be challenging for smaller channels to break through, but hopefully one day haha.
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I watched this film as a double-feature with 'Hostiles'. What I took away from both films is a grief shared. Grief for those whose lives and families have been disrupted or destroyed - and grief for the perpetrators; for the damage they've done to themselves, as well as to their victims.
Very cool. I’ve never seen Hostiles. I’ve heard pretty good things though.
@@LifeIsAStory Painful movie
That is a great double feature.
@@MsPatriotfront I thought the two films 'bookended' nicely. They share similar themes - grief and loss - yet, end with their own small, individual victories.
I watched this over the weekend, out of the blue not expecting such a beautiful well-made movie. Many Writers/Directors today are obsessed with the concept of "subverting audience expectations" They fail miserably. The fact that this movie shows a tragedy on multiple levels, with real characters, and never cheats out by trying to subvert expectations, it succeeds beautifully. The hooking up with the wrong guy trope is used perfectly in this movie. It gets such a recommendation from me. Jeremy Renner is such a great performer and proves that he is more than just an actor.
Taylor Sheridan tells incredible stories about people outside urban America who most of Hollywood barely acknowledge exist. Sheridan certainly has his favorites, he picks the same actors over and over for his projects, Gil Birmingham, Jeremy Renner etc.
Philosophy of stoicism (take the pain, dont take it personally).
Absolutely
Yup. Try to limit the amount of pain you cause. That got me.
Thank you for making an actual analysis that is just that, and not a recap of all the movie's events.
I recently viewed this movie for the first time, and appreciate your take on the poem.
“Wolves don’t kill unlucky sheep, they kill the weak ones”
LOL that is so F**ing naive, wolves can kill any sheep. Mostly the one nearest, weak or unlucky. Not like any sheep is fast or fierce enough, they are all weak relatively speaking. Now a moose or an elk can move out faster or turn and fight. Scariest thing in the woods short of a momma bear is a momma moose. They can rip the life out of you just by rearing up and striking you with their hooves.
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When I looked up The story behind wind river, it’s based on the stories of missing and murdered indigenous women.
This was a brilliant video
Wind River, High Water and?
@@territmoderitmo9190 Sicario
Hell or High Water is freaking amazing
You also will enjoy No Country For Old Men & Sicario ……very similar to Wind River….they keep you guessing
This is a great analysis for a great movie, thank you for making it.
Excellent film, insightful analysis!!!🙏😪
I love Wind River and Sicario. Have watched both films multiple times. Had no idea Taylor sheridan wrote both. I just finished 1883 and have become a huge fan of his work, even though I didnt know it lol. Must see Hell or High Water.
Sadly tribes from Alaska canada and northern polar hemisphere suffer horrible crimes, sadly it's rare to find culprits, this film is a prime example that the north pole crimes go unpunished as third world countries.
Doesn’t the movie take place in Wyoming?
It’s based on the stories of missing and murdered indigenous women.
@@greenman8009 Same thing there too in many tribal lands
This happened in Wyoming though, this movie focuses on the crimes against Native American women. So many Native American go missing and it goes unnoticed. When they went to see the coroner they were gonna rule out Natalie’s death as a suicide when she really got raped and froze to death. I’ve had someone close to my family get kidnapped and human trafficked, she was lucky enough to escape the people who kidnapped her so thank god for that.
Maybe that is because they have their own jurisdiction, tribal police and tribal courts/justice and Feds and regular police don’t really get involved?
I've become a big fan of Sheridan and his story-telling, and the way he weaves the themes between his modern western trilogy. The movie that Wind River reminded me most of, however, is Winter's Bone. It also tells a brutal story about the hard lives and drama of a marginalized people; this time through the POV of a young woman named Ree (Jennifer Lawrence in her first film), who has already absorbed a lifetime of hurt and despair, but is taking the pain. These are two very powerful movies that show you another world, and these worlds will stay with you.
I kept thinking of that movie as well, they're both brilliant pictures.
Daniel Woodrell is a great writer - I live in the Ozarks where he lives and his stories are set. Both can be hard to get by in.
I wasn't ready for this film! I just pulled it up because I really love Jeremy Rheners' work and was looking to mentally decompress one evening. Damn was i caught off guard! Wind River is definitely a "Look away" feature as it poiniently highlights societal wrongs that inflame fragility such as the ceaseless history of crimes committed against all indigenous peoples and violence against woman. What surprised me further was the accuracy in how this film exposes the reality of flawed character traits that are consistently rebadged as "Bravado" or being a real man or "Badass"! Wind River shows what's behind those masks but then poetically states what true strength and power are and demonstrates how it's through our humanity we display our greatness. I want to watch this film again, but I really need to recover from the initial viewing. Thank you for this breakdown and pointing out the correlation to Emily's poem. I missed that but knew there was something more. Great work! I'm a suscriber now.
Great analysis. This is one of my favorite movies. It came out during the first year of my daughters life.
this movie is a masterpeice. I loved it the first time i saw it. It is very unerrated. Sadely.
Both are fabulous but very sad films. I'm just beginning to discover how talented Jeremy Renner is. Healing prayers Jeremy... 🌄🙏🌈
Benicio del Toro is also an excellent actor. Sicario was exquisite. I also love him in The Wolfman with Anthony Hopkins.
Not a movie you forget about 5 min after you finish it. It is a great movie.
Great video this. I really appreciate what you have to say on this movie. I do feel that there is a second meaning to the poem line "it matters who it's from". I feel that what Cory is saying is it doesn't matter if the ones you love are loving you back in but that they feel loved
I've watched this movie a couple times and the one thing I'd like to know is why does Corey wait until the shootout is over to intervene. He's a crack shot and he's well past the tree line with no obstructions. Not only does he not get involved during the shootout but he also he allows two deputies to be finished off before he starts picking off the bad guys. And yes, James Jordan is amazing as the lowlife Pete.
Anyone?
Idk why I didn't know Sheridan directed Those Who Wish Me Dead but I'm gonna rent it ASAP
You deserve more subs my man. Fantastic analysis.
Very good narrative! Compliments.
Wow.... Take the pain, but don't spread it, that is a timely message!
Great analysis of a great film.
What I love about the movie is we know everything that happened but none of the characters could possibly figure out what happened. Just like the tracker said he doesnt know what exactly happened to his own daughter.
The guy at the end is Aidan Gillen, who played Petyr Baelish, or Littlefinger, from Game of Thrones.
Wind River is my favorite modern western.
Beautiful analysis!
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Great video. I loved this movie. You created great discussions for it.
Nicely done.
Your ideas are well-thought out and interesting.
However, it should be noted that the film was at the very least "inspired" by a 2 or 3 story arc from the fourth season of the tv show Longmire.
Some of the actors in the film were in that tv story.
A brilliant film, regardless.
Excellent job of analysis, you identified Cory as neither sheep or wolf so you missed what he really is - a sheepdog. Only the best of men are sheepdogs...........
Coincidentally, some of the worst of men are those who self-identify as sheepdogs. I liked that while Cory is portrayed that way, it's never overtly blatant.
Up north, we protect our families and all around us, just da way she goes.
quality video 👍🏻
Appreciate it 🙏
Get a high hide and a support by fire position is what Renner is doing there. Going in there and facing down the perps is another person's job. When the fight separates and he's able to he brings the hammer.
This is a TRUE STORY!
Life just hurts, doesn’t matter who the fuck you are. Good movie too
Great video man.
Top 10 film for me
Well done!
To all
Be well
Binging through all your vids today since the internet is out at work 😉
Oh wow, it's Hawkeye and Scarlett Witch!
Why the film enhances suffering as the biggest ideal for “growing”? The film clearly enhances that life is about fighting for survival (not survival from the boredom). It makes very clear how most Native Americans AND Americans have lost their spiritual strength, and how to regain it. A film clearly at the same height of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old man and the Sea”. ❤
Don’t come for me if you disagree, I love the depth and grit of this movie hands down but… am I the only one who wished Cory and Jane fell in love? Their mutual respect is beautiful and I saw a spark between them. Was him reading that particular magazine article “10 signs he’s into you” a hint at this?
Agree in a way, but it would be just a distraction from the message
@@rafaela40 you are so correct! Didn’t think about that…
The magazine article is definitely a hint. He's so stoic but still brave so that's a subtle way to flirt with her gently. It was so great and "blink and you miss it"
Yeah, given how precise and intentional everything else in this movie is, no way the "10 signs" thing was a coincidence.
Wind River is excellent and does a lot of things well. One thing it does NOT do well is the well acted scene with Renner and his ex wife in the beginning of the movie. He warns her about a storm and that brings up Pinedale. Yah. Don't go that way. It's a crappy way to get to Caspar. Lander to Caspar is much shorter. You don't go to Pinedale on the way to Caspar. Unless you want a nice scenic drive.
But the mom who lost her daughter is referencing the town where the parents had shacked up in a motel, leaving teenage kids home, where predators kidnapped Emily. I thought that the scene captured quite well the sad emptiness of a couple (esp. the Native mom) who couldn't stay together after the loss of Emily, with guilt and blame likely having been expressed in the aftermath. In the midst of all this buried emotion is the heartbreaking sight of the young son, who now receives his parenting so distorted from what it would have been. The travel details are not terribly relevant. Do we know if the Reservation sheriff survived the shootout?
@@hivicar I think it's reasonable to believe he caught multiple rifle rounds(Chief) and it's fairly clear he's dead where he stands. He died fighting as do most of the parties involved. I agree on the sad emptiness. Clearly its that. But having been a divorced husband the last thing I'd do is bring up a sore in our (one of my various former wives) relationship when we're trying to be cool in front of the kids, Shes kind of allowed to to bad things to me. I'll take that and get the kids out of there. Renner is portayed as sort of zen. I don't think he'd try to pick a fight. There's better ways of doing that.
Spoiler....... but please help!
Am l the only one that didn't get the connection between the snowmobile's tracks near the hoese of the junkies, and the tracks near the puma? How did Cory found out the guards were involved?
Cory says someone unloaded a sled at Little Foot’s but it was strange that the tracks only go one way. The tracks should have gone back to Little Foot’s, after dumping the body, indicating whoever dumped the body went somewhere else after. Later when all the deputies gather at the station they ask why can’t they just head to the rig from Little Foot’s, since it’s shorter than driving 50 miles to the rig. Cory tells them that they would have to drive between two canyons and it’s just too much terrain for the snowmobiles to handle and he would have to spend all their time digging them out. Then while Cory goes back to see where the rest of the tracks lead to, he sees that they go between the two canyons and realizes that the tracks are leading to the rig
@@BreakofDawn thank you. I was confused becouse l thought it was something about the pumas, instead it was just a matter of following the tracks. But why didn't they do it as soon as they found the body? I thought that whoever dumped the dead guy, drove back over the same tracks...
I wish Sheridan would continue writing movies, rather than that TV soap opera garbage, Yellowstone.
I feel like you haven’t watched Yellowstone.
I watched Yellowstone and I do describe it as a violent, modern, cowboy soap opera. But I did enjoy it. It reminded me of sons of anarchy in a way, as that was soapy and violent and unrealistic as well. There are so many people killed on both of those shows, and nobody ever asked any questions. The “good guys” usually get away with it, and nobody investigates.
Keep it up.
I love the movie but I found it a little bit unrealistic that out of the whole group of security team every single one of them was a murderer and a rapist and totally chill and unbothered about it.. like they're not even friends they just work together.. like not one of them wasn't capable of the most horrible things on earth?? Not one guy was even disturbed by it they just did a double murder and a rape and then acted like a normal Tuesday and played it off all calm with the police.. I feel like they'd be freaking out if not turning each other in..
It’s no different then a cult
It is a movie at the end of the day
This is such an important and heartbreaking movie. No offense but you dropped the ball on the meaning. Your comment on how the police and the viewers don't know that this is the scene of the rape and murder is totally false. I knew where it was right away but I paid attention to the film- not just the poem in the musical score and yes I picked up on that too!
Pete is South Park’s Randy Marsh after his ”Breaking Bad.”
Why you flanking me?
Great, GREAT analysis, thumb up.
I'm completely flabbergasted that the man behind this masterpiece could write and direct such a shitty movie as Those who wish me dead.
I wonder how many white men have seen this film and felt some kind of commonality to the main character that comes from having Native American f&f kind of thing?
😲😲😲😲
Also I feel like after they defused the standoff with the security people before the shootout I think if it was real life they'd all be immediately arrested for threatening a federal agent with a firearm. And the police wether they had jurisdiction or not. And she's a fed so she did have jurisdiction..they have been arrested or shot the moment they put down their guns if it was real life. I know it's supposed to be like the wild west vibes but still let's be real here no cops and FBI gonna just let an ambush attempt on their lives slide like that..
It was the cop on "her side" that pulled first and said that they were squaring up for a fight, and arguably started the whole standoff. None of the men ever pointed a gun at her until (maybe) the situation turned into the giant standoff that she herself talked everyone down from, because she wanted to keep things under control. Sure, she could have tried to arrest everyone at that point for some alleged crime, but it would be tough to make that stick with just eyewitness testimony (and again, local cops had arguably started the altercation unprovoked), and then where would that have gotten her? No one would have talked to her about the case, and ultimately that was all she really wanted to solve.
First 2 seconds I though he was actually addressing those who wished him dead.💀
The moral of the story was bring a 45-70 to a pistol fight.
A DANDY film.
I live around here and that's not the way it actually went down.Hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood hollywood
Coyotes not wolves, coyotes are the metaphor of the story cowards preying on the weak
Great analysis... but please don't actually believe these are random events...
Why don't you mention the obvious, intentional theme of missing and murdered indigenous women? That's the issue this movie aims to bring to light
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This movie is about MMIW or MISSING MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN on the reservations ! ! !
This was before The Big Thaw...
Who had the silly idea to equip Cory with a silvered rifle? One
Stainless steel.
If you are going to make ignorant comments about weapons at least do a little research.
The caliber was 45-70. A caliber of weapon that is historically significant in the history of the U.S.
The weapon was stainless steel. Stainless steel is resistant to corrosion. The fact that the weapon is very authentically pleasing is beside the point.
It is very telling that your comment is what you took away from this film considering its historical significance.
@@lutherl2350Also his job is a hunter. It's shown he has a few rifles, and a whole bullet making set-up. He seems to enjoy his job and taking care of his gear. It's totally in character to me that a professional hunter would have a really nice rifle, just as professional guitarists often have a very nice guitar.
This is unrelated but I have to write it somewhere: I also love how he is portrayed to be very skillful and even graceful on the snowmobile. It often feels like watching a dance. The movie would have been just as good without those details, but I found it fascinating they were put there.
There's that scene where he teaches his son to ride a horse, but it should've been a scene where he teaches him how to change the oil in the snowmobile
I pretty much liked the movie up until the end, I’m really kind of sick to death of the lone man takes justice into his own hands narrative where he brings the guy up to a mountain with no shoes on and then ask him to confess to a crime. why was the Macho John wick larp necessary? If he really knows the guy is guilty bring them to the police. If I was up on a mountain without shoes on and someone told me that I needed to confess for them to let me go free I would confess to setting in the great Chicago fire. I also deeply resented the comment at the end about you lived because you’re strong, implying that those who have died or who were killed our week you guys talk about how the girl who gets murdered in the movie is such a warrior and then you dismiss that whole concept by saying that the strong survive so which is it?
the open corpse expires in the table
Bro did you just paraphrase Billy Madison? 😶
Kinda talk too much, let's have prayer for all
Thanks captain obvious!!!