Photographer of black boy on the border

Editor's note: Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch, experts from Reunion, joined forces in Wyoming. Under the banner of democracy under the rule of law, it is eternal for the unruly people in the backcountry, and it is the misery and sorrow that the strong survive and the weak are slaughtered. Let's take a look at this film review of Hunting Wind Valley.

1. My love is dedicated to the border.

Judging from his past achievements, director Taylor Sheridan is a person who likes life on the American border. His two works "Go through Fire and Water" and "Black Boy on the Border" both focus on the American border, which is desolate and lonely and has a high crime rate. The rules of the game in big cities are not applicable in his works. What he wrote most was the human entanglements and conflicts of interest of a few criminals.

Not satisfied with his own screenwriter, he directed the film Hunting the Wind Valley for the first time and won the Best Director Award in a Focus Unit of the 70th Cannes International Film Festival. It can be seen that he played his own style and level with ease and created his own attitude towards frontier culture. Why do we always have tears in our eyes when we watch his movies? Because Xie Lidan loves this land deeply.

2. Under the ice and snow, all is not beauty and romance.

A song "Edelweiss" makes us feel the warmth of family. A frozen, let us witness the interesting dream and innocence under the magnificent special effects. But in Hunting the Wind Valley, we can only feel the inhumanity of heaven and earth and the hardships of survival. Cory, a hunter, and Jane, a female investigator of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, struggled to solve the case in the roaring storm and snowstorm, uncovering Wyoming's unique geographical and ethnic scars and witnessing the evil and all kinds of unbearable under the cover of the blizzard.

The film begins with a woman running in the snow, and then cuts into the scene where hunter Cory shoots a lone wolf to save livestock. With the howling wind and snow, the cold and desolate tone spread. Jeremy Reina put away his eagle-eyed cunning, know fairly well, and once again returned to the feeling of vacillation and grief in hurt locker. The wife and children have a brief contact, and the smart audience has guessed a rough idea in the face of the hesitation of the daughter's photo. But this is probably nothing in the face of subsequent explanations.

He found a body, called the police, and then the federal police were ordered to investigate. The original simple process is not so simple during the investigation. Running barefoot for 6 kilometers, what made her so afraid? Who was sexually assaulted before death? The local police station is not doing well, and the coroner's official statement makes us doubt whether the local legal system exists. What kind of evil is hidden behind this seemingly ordinary criminal case is what the protagonist and we care about.

3. The civilian epic Snow White and Blood Red

This film can be regarded as the genuine version of The Returnee. It's all ice and snow, it's all a struggle between good and evil, it's all a struggle and immortality, it's all profiteering and anti-profiteering. It's just that hunter Cory hasn't put it together yet, so he can think calmly, track down and kill criminals by surprise. There are no glaciers, only wilderness. The pale cold between heaven and earth masked everyone's feelings, and racial discrimination in border areas accelerated the decline of local civilization and the breeding of evil.

Of course, the most terrible thing in the film is murder. However, when the FBI agent arrived, this dilemma seemed to become even more difficult to understand. The indifference of the deceased's father, the self-harm of his mother and the psychological gap between Indians and whites make all assumptions and predictions impossible to realize.

The Wyoming Indian Reservation, where the story happened, is an independent autonomous region provided by white Americans as aggressive colonists for Indian natives. Nowadays, the residents here are like living outside the civilized world. Poverty, drug abuse, alcoholism, rape and other problems deeply plague the local people, but the US government has done nothing about it. As foreigners, the local people are completely forgotten by the mainstream American society.

It is this special geographical and cultural background that makes the tone of the whole movie as painful and depressing as the unpredictable weather conditions in Wyoming. Therefore, only the hunter Cory who married the Indian can break the psychological defense of the families of the deceased, let them unload the appearance of the cold storage and express their grief without disguise. FBI agent Jane, or any white policeman, can't enter their inner world.

What kind of world is this? The murdered Indian girl fell in love with a middle-aged man who had seen the world, because he had seen the prosperity of big cities such as new york and LA. Criminals insulted Indians with unscrupulous words and actions, because the snow closed the mountain for months without any entertainment and cultural intervention; White policemen wear police uniforms, but they live in a nest with local bullies, because federal laws have no function and significance in this wasteland.

A large number of snow scenes in the lens make all the characters look even smaller and more helpless. This independent world is doomed to be isolated and helpless forever.

4. Western problems and rules.

This film follows Taylor Sheridan's usual emotional foreshadowing and clue arrangement. Detecting the plot and the crime go hand in hand, solving the puzzle in advance destroys the suspense setting, but makes the audience face the cruelty and anger when the crime occurs.

In the middle paragraph, the hunter Corey's memories of his daughter's murder are intertwined, and his emotions are suppressed to the extreme, but his narrative emotions are generate. The tears in Jeremy Reina's eyes gave birth to the camera cooperation, which made the audience feel a little sad.

The expectations of federal agents to arrest criminals according to law fell through. The sudden sniper fire in the RV made the two sides scuffle. If it weren't for Hunter Corey's unique professional consciousness and tactical means, the criminals would always be at large.

Corey succeeded in avenging the dead in the most direct way. The audience can breathe a sigh of relief when watching the bully who is worse than an animal vomit blood and fall to the ground. All these are illegal. But what is the real law in this land? Western problems are solved by western rules.

5. Excellent editors lead to guidance.

Taylor Sheridan's debut didn't disappoint us. Because he used his advantage wisely. In photography, editing, sound effects, music, actors and other aspects have reached a delicate balance.

The whole work is neat and rigorous, presenting the sharp social problems, racial problems and legal system construction in the western United States to the audience naked in the ice and snow. No tricks, no flowers, smart enough. I hope the next one is better.

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