If it is simply classified from the genre of suspenseful works, "Hunting the Wind River Valley" should be regarded as a so-called "socialist" work. In a cold Indian reservation in the United States, a girl who was brutally violated ran barefoot in the deep snow in the wilderness until she died in the wild. The murder of young girls is a common theme in American crime works. Such crimes are often related to sex. The criminals are brutal and mentally ill at the same time. It can be extended to rich topics involving criminal psychological analysis and social environment speculation. It is often heartbreaking. , again thought provoking.
The social background of "Wind River Valley" is even more special. It takes place in the American Indian reservation, which itself is a topic with a heavy sense of history. At the same time, what is more serious is that this is a concept that is gradually being forgotten. Indians feel even more unfamiliar to people outside American society, and it is simply an "ancient" topic.
Audiences who have watched the American drama "Murder" should have some feelings about this theme, which also has a certain relationship with Indian reservations, but the social relationship of that drama is more complicated, and in "Hunting the Wind and River Valley", it is a chilling and desolate scene. land, like this forgotten historical topic.
However, the whole incident is not a simple Indian incident. You will find that there are also complex "identity" gaps in this land. The victims are Indian families, and the law enforcement agencies are basically local white people and an outside FBI. There are foreign project contractors. And the murder of a young girl connected the various roles that seemed to be loose in this vast but sparsely populated land. Among them, there are two people who play an important role, one is a white hunter who was born and bred in the country and is obviously trusted by all parties in the local area, and the other is a female police officer sent by the FBI to investigate the case.
The setting of the two characters is very interesting. Although the hunter is not a police officer, in this wilderness, the connection between wild animals and people is still close, and through this connection, the hunter naturally becomes the community and has a good relationship with all parties, and there is more room to deal with it. A big person is like the aunt of the neighborhood committee in the community. In the film, he is on a mission to hunt wolves, and happens to encounter a girl's desperate incident, so because of his professional identity and familiarity with the surrounding environment, he has also become a responsible candidate, and a tragic personal experience has also made him later The actions seem logical. Yes, only in areas with developed commercial economy, there is a more detailed economic and administrative division of labor, just like densely populated cities, everyone is in their place, and there is a set of administrative systems and information systems with clear levels. In the wilderness like the film, such a division of labor and structure still exists in form, but in fact it is useless, and the vast land is obviously understaffed. Therefore, in such an environment, the folk system formed by the so-called acquaintance society, and even the "rule of man", is even more important, which also lays the groundwork for the final release of the tragic force that was gathered in the film for most of the time.
The FBI police officer is an "intruder" character. This kind of role is actually very common in film and television works. In American movies, they may break into a conservative town in the south; in Chinese movies, they may break into Entering a remote village, in short, is often used to reflect a conservative and repressive social reality. In this film, it is slightly different. The police officer does not suffer too much hostility, but from an outsider's perspective, a perspective closer to the audience of this film, to feel the helplessness, sadness, warmth, and self-correction power of this community , it can be said that she is our "representative", to experience the deep sorrow in the environment that the local people are accustomed to.
Although it is a crime theme, the director's rhythm and shots have always been very restrained, but he cleverly laid out suspense and created a reversal. For example, what role does the victim's boyfriend play in it, is he the perpetrator, or is there another secret? The director pushes the story with a logic that seems to be common sense and mobilizes the audience's emotions. In this process, the whole rhythm does not seem urgent, just like the rhythm of life in this community, even if there is conflict, it is not so intense.
However, it is this rhythm that constantly brews the energy of the film and the emotions of the audience, the encounter of the innocent girl at the beginning, and the uncontrollable sadness of the people involved in the progress of the film, all of which make the audience slowly immersed in it, and the truth begins to be blurred. And anxious: hurry up, can you hurry up, tell us the truth, give us an explanation? ! And all of this gives sufficient "energy" to the outbreak at the end. Finally, the truth is revealed, and a touching but more painful love story makes people sadder; People were caught off guard, but they applauded. And the ending of the story has a long aftertaste. When this "reservation" becomes a "borderless land" in a sense, the order can only be maintained by a primitive rule. Don't say that some of the means here are not enough of the rule of law, because the resources here lack sufficient legal system, and the so-called "reserved land" is nothing but a wilderness ridge far from modern society and order. This film does not directly touch history, but makes history come into reality. In the film, the emotions repressed by the victim's father are finally released in a traditional way, making it difficult for people to quickly get rid of this strange emotion after the seemingly happy ending. . . .
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