Wind River suffers from not being a remake or a work based on incredibly popular books. Without these features that seem to come to stay in Hollywood, production has premiered limited to few cinemas. But with great work from director, writer and former actor, Taylor Sheridan, the film has been gaining more space in the industry, winning more movie theaters and thus increasing its box office.
Using visual metaphors that soon shows us the personality of the protagonist Cory Lambert, interpreted by Jeremy Renner, the film manages to make us identify with the personage soon of face. Defending wolf sheep, the self-styled hunter and government agent who deals with wildlife shows his life goal: helping the weak.
The reason is clear when Lambert finds a girl dead in the snow of the State of Wyoming. Daughter of her friend, the young woman died the same way as the protagonist’s daughter, who from there will work hard for the murderer to be found. After all, helping your friend ends up being the same as helping yourself, and protecting your daughter’s memory.
However, this is not where the film stands out over others. Productions with themes and similar genres abound in Hollywood. What stands out here is that the title puts us in another world without having to go to another planet, a strategy now widely used in science fiction films. Here we are transported to a world closer but rarely visited or shown on the big screen: the Native American reservations of Native Americans.
Far from everything and everyone, surrounded by snow, mountains and the coldness of nature, the inhabitants of the impoverished community live as if imprisoned by their own environment. As if this were not enough, the lack of services, even police, leave the residents of the reserve subject to crimes and whims of nature. Snow storms that come and go sporadically contribute even more to the difficulty of living in the place.
Thus, geography and the climate end up being like that personages of the film that prevent the place to develop. Sheridan introduces us to the Jane Banner, played by Elizabeth. In order to understand this community through our eyes of large-town residents (and there is a great chance that anyone we know lives in a larger city than the Indian reservation shown in the film) Olsen, a young police officer who, not being taken very seriously by the Las Vegas police, ends up being the only representative of the federal police who is sent to investigate the murder.
It is through Olsen that we understand how difficult it is to walk through the community, both physically since the cold can kill, and professionally since the local police department has a small number of police officers. In addition to psychologically, as well, since all residents suffer from traumas that prevent them from communicating normally.
With an impressive photograph, Sheridan gives us an idea of the complications that distant, inhospitable and abandoned communities experience day-to-day, providing something different from what we are used to today’s movies.
(article translated from the original version in portuguese, by Google Translate)