Wind River
Came out; 2017
Time; 1 hour 47 minutes
Watched: Netflix
Rating; R for strong violence, a rape, distrubing images and language
IMDB Rating; 7.7/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Elizabeth Olsen as Jane Banner
Jeremy Renner as Cory Lambert
Graham Greene as Ben
Kelsey Asbille as Natalie
Julia Jones as Wilma
Teo Briones as Casey
Apenanahkwat as Dan Crowheart
Tantoo Cardinal as Alice Crowheart
Eric Lange as Dr. Whitehurst
Gil Birmingham as Martin
Athea Sam as Annie
Tokala Black Elk as Sam Littlefeather
Storyline;
East of Boulder Flats, deep into the vast and unforgiving white territory of the Wind River Indian Reservation, the seasoned game tracker, Cory Lambert, discovers the frozen body of the young Native American, Natalie. As this is a federal crime, the F.B.I. dispatches the inexperienced but courageous agent Jane Banner to lead the investigation, however, the unprepared outsider will soon team up with Cory to unravel the mystery of Natalie's murder. Before long, Cory will inevitably have to face his own past, while at the same time, both he and Jane are thirsting to see justice done. In the end, will this be a fruitful alliance?
Thoughts;
What a slow movie this was. It took way to long to get to the end of the movie, way too much inbetween. I understand this movie was shed light on the laws surrounding Indian Reservations and when it comes to who can arrest who, but they could have done a faster moving movie.
In the end what actually happened seems so dumb and the idiots took things way to far.
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
Plot Summary;
The
movie opens at night in a cold, remote Wyoming Wilderness on the Wind
River Indian Reservation. Natalie Hanson, an 18-year-old Native
American woman, is running barefoot through the snow while crying and
looking back over her shoulder when we see the opening credits.
The
next scene shows Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) in full white
camouflage shooting a wolf. Lambert is a hunter for the Fish and
Wildlife Department who kills predatory animals in the area. The next
scenes show Cory picking up his son from his ex-wife's house to take
him out to the Indian reservation to visit her parents. It becomes
evident that Cory lost his daughter at a young age.
While out
on one of his hunts, Lambert comes across the body of a young woman
(Hanson). She's partly submerged in the snow with no shoes on, her
toes and feet frostbitten, and a large wound on her forehead.
Cory
Lambert reports the crime to the Reservation Tribal Police who notify
Natalie's parents, Martin and Annie Hanson. Corey waits with Ben
(Graham Greene) who is the Tribal Police chief and oversees a staff
of six officers for the entire reservation, which is the size of
Rhode Island. They wait at the Hanson house as FBI Agent Jane Banner
(Elizabeth Olsen) arrives during a snow storm. They take snowmobiles
out to the location where Natalie's body is found. Jane labels the
event as a homicide. After returning to town, they go to the medical
examiner's office who explains that Natalie was raped by an unknown
number of people, but that she died from the cold hitting her lungs
and causing them to burst and she died alone. Jane is upset because
its not being labeled a homicide, even though everyone knows she died
while running for her life.
Corey, Jane, and Ben all head to
the rundown house of Sam Littlefeather, which is a drug den on the
reservation as they look for clues. Upon arriving, they are fired
upon by Sam as well as Chip Hanson (Natalie's brother). Cory is able
to subdue Chip and another man while Jane pursues Sam Littlefeather
in the house. Sam comes around a corner and fires at Jane, missing,
while she is able to hit him with several rounds. He dies on the
spot. They interview Chip, and the other man and Cory finds out that
Natalie had a boyfriend named Matt who was a security guard at one of
the local oil drilling camps in the mountains.
While arresting
Chip, Corey sees snowmobile trails going up the hill from the house
and goes to track them along with Jane. Up the hill they find the
dead body of Matt Rayburn, who was Natalie's boyfriend, being eaten
and chewed on by birds, half buried in the snow.
Jane, Ben,
and two other deputies from Tribal police take snowmobiles all the
way up to the oil drilling camp, which has several trailers on it for
the workers to sleep while working up there. Cory decides to go back
up the hill to further investigate Matt's death. They are greeted by
the lead security guy for the drilling area. They ask him where Matt
is and the security guy says he was hoping they might have answers
and that he'd been missing for a few days. He has several scars on
his face, as do two of the other security guards who come down as
well. As they're walking to Matt's trailer, the lead security guy
mentions them finding Natalie's body a few days ago and that he heard
it on the radio. Jane replies surprised, saying We never said her
name on the radio. As they get close to Matt's trailer, one of the
Indian deputies notices that the other guards have their guns out and
are flanking him and the group. He gets concerned, and everyone draws
their weapons, and a standoff occurs. Jane's FBI rank outranks the
other officers, and she takes control of the situation getting
everyone to calm down. They walk to the trailer and Jane turns the
door handle, and its locked. So she knocks.
At this point, a
flashback starts as Matt crawls out of bed and answers the door to
find out that it's Natalie knocking. They kiss and hug, and then the
scene fast forwards to them post coital relations, talking about
where they want to run away to. As they talk, you can hear Matt's
co-workers pulling up to the trailer. Natalie shuts the curtain as
the men enter, intoxicated and loud. Pete, who is the drunkest of the
group, opens the curtain and starts teasing Matt and Natalie, asking
them what they've been up to. He finally tries to see under the
covers, and Matt jumps out of bed to hit him and push him back. The
rest of the guys grab Matt after he gets a few punches in on Pete.
Natalie jumps on top of them, and she is thrown on the bed after
being hit hard in the head, knocking her out. She falls onto the bed
on her stomach and Pete proceeds to rape Natalie. She awakes as Pete
is raping her and Matt frees himself from the other guys and starts
to hit Pete. The whole group again goes after Matt, beating him,
while Natalie is able to escape and start running away. It's clear
that this is when she starts running for her life, which eventually
leads to her death.
The flashback sequence ends with Jane
knocking on the door screaming "FBI". Corey from up on the
mountain sees snowmobile tracks going from where Matt died down to
the camp. He radios Ben to warn him about the security guys. Ben
tells Jane to get away from the door, and at that point a loud
explosion comes through the door... buckshot from a shotgun striking
Jane in the chest and knocking her far back off the steps of the
trailer. At this point, the gunfire starts, with the security guys
all trying to shoot the members of the tribal police. Jane is alive
because of her bullet proof vest but injured from the impact. The
security guys manage to kill Ben and the other Indian Tribe officers,
even though they are wounded as well. Jane is trying to reload her
gun when the lead security guard takes it away from her. It's at this
point that a bullet comes flying through his body out of nowhere to
kill him. The other guards are looking around but can't find where
the gunner is at. They both proceed to get killed by the mystery
gunman who turns out to be Cory.
Cory shoots into the trailer
hoping to get the men who shot Jane from inside, one of whom is Pete
who raped Natalie in the flashback. Cory hits the other man inside
the house as Pete escapes out the back and runs into the hills. Cory
comes over and attends to Jane and helps her with her injuries. He
then proceeds to head up the hill and try and chase Pete. Pete is
running and confused and looking for Cory as he can hear someone. He
turns around, and Corey nails him in the face with the butt of his
rifle. Pete wakes up to find he's been taken up to the top of the
mountain and that his boots have been removed and his toes are
getting frostbite already. Cory pushes Pete and gets him to confess
to raping Natalie and killing Matt. Cory tells him he's free to go
since he confessed, but first he tells Pete that Natalie ran six
miles in the snow barefoot, and that he didn't think Pete would make
it 600 feet. Cory tells him to run, and Pete starts to run, making it
just a few dozen steps before the cold freezes up his lungs, just as
it had done to Natalie's.
The final scenes show Cory in the
hospital talking to Jane, and the scene ends with Jane crying over
all that they had been through. Then Corey goes to Martin Hanson's
house where he finds Martin sitting outside with his death paint face
paint on his face. Martin says he just invented death paint. Cory
hints that they caught all the guys and that the man who killed
Natalie went out with a whimper. Martin then starting to get choked
up says "I just want to sit here and miss her for a minute, will
you sit with me?" Cory sits with him, and a title screen comes
up saying that statistics are kept for every group of missing people
except native American women. Nobody knows how many are missing.
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