At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Sheridan has won the "Best Director" award in a focus unit for this film. The Xining First Youth Film Festival successfully introduced this film as the opening film. Long directorial debut.
The film starring two "superheroes", "Avengers" in the "Avengers" Hawkeye actor Jeremy Renner as the male protagonist, Scarlet Witch actor Elizabeth Olsen as the female protagonist, in
addition to the American drama "The Walking Dead" The actor of Sean, Joe Boenser, and the Indian actor Gil Birmingham, who has starred in "Go Through Fire", also played important supporting roles. The participation of stars and actors of this magnitude in the first film shows Sheridan's influence as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Sheridan’s previous screenwriters have always had a strong focus on marginalized groups in American society, especially those who like to live in desolate places, far away from metropolises, engage in illegal or special jobs, and are outside the sight of mainstream society. Through him The proficient narrative ability reflects the various social problems in the United States.
For the first time, the director of Sheridan focused the camera on the place where he was born-the American Indian Reservation in Wyoming. This is an independent autonomous area provided by white Americans as invading colonists for the Native Indians. Today, the Indian reservations are like living. In hell, the problems of poverty, drug abuse, alcoholism, and rape are deeply troubled by the locals. The US government has done nothing about this. The Indian private land is like a land outside the law, completely forgotten by mainstream American society.
The film is also based on this background. The body of an Indian girl was found in a snowy field. She ran a long distance and was raped during her lifetime. Reina played by Cory, a local wildlife tracker, assisted Olsen as the FBI. Detective Jane solved the case, and in the process, he also uncovered the huge pain in Cory's heart. It turned out that his daughter had also died tragically on this snowy field. The tone of the film is as depressing and miserable as the reckless winter in Wyoming. The world is full of pale snow and cloudy skies, withered woods, coyotes and jaguars, and snowstorms that come from time to time.
The case was reported to the FBI. Jane, who was sent by the FBI, was obviously a rookie out of town. He didn't even know the climate in Wyoming. This paragraph directly showed the relationship between the federal and Indian reservations. Don't care, just assign a rookie on a business trip nearby to deal with the matter. When Jane went to the deceased's home to inquire, the deceased's father was very contemptuous and dismissive of her, unwilling to answer any questions seriously, and even behaved quite indifferently in the face of her daughter's death. And when the local friend Cory came, this father released the great grief of losing his beloved daughter. This bridge segment further depicts the local closure and the huge separation with the federal government, and there is no trust in outsiders at all. In addition, the film’s lines also point to the problem of excessive protection of criminals’ human rights by the US judicial system. In such a land where no one cares or even knows about it, the only way to survive is to take care of the feelings, the weak and the strong, and the eye for the eye. Dao, so, while helping the detective solve the case, the protagonist also casts in the anger of his daughter's tragic death but unable to find the murderer, and voluntarily shoulders the task of being a friend's daughter to be a criminal on the spot, and the fire of revenge in his heart is burning. .
Jeremy Renner has dedicated what may be his best performance since he became famous. Cory, who played by him, bears a huge bereavement in his heart, but he has never had much emotional ups and downs throughout the movie, and is always wise. Carefully, bravely, and patiently looking for clues, but Rainer occasionally interprets Cory's heart-wounded heart through subtle expression changes and movements. At Cory's house, it was the only time Cory confessed his inner trauma to Jane. In tears, when Cory forcefully said "the incompleteness of her daughter's body that was eaten by coyotes when it was found", Reina tried hard to cry but finally shed tears to quickly return to calmness and peace and shocked me. At that moment, the audience's hearts seemed to be Was crushed just like him.
Relatively speaking, Elizabeth Olsen’s performance was somewhat unsatisfactory. She basically only performed three expressions, laughing, crying, and staring in surprise. She lacked a sense of hierarchy in emotional expression. The character of Jane has grown and developed a lot in the text. Psychological changes, but Olsen's performance did not show up well.
The literary drama in the first half of the film is a little dull, but the emotions and clues are well laid out, allowing the climax of the final plot and the emotional explosion of the audience to be fully realized. The scheduling of the last stage of the gunfight where the two sides confronted and then suddenly broke out was very good. I also liked the scene in the trailer house when the deceased brother was arrested. The den of the typical American drug addicts was dirty, chaotic, and poor, but different. It also contains Native Indian elements, which is a bit of a spectacle to me.
This movie is not without its shortcomings. First, the typified narrative that is too routine has greatly reduced the suspense of the story. Every step of the plot has not exceeded my expectations. Where should I spread emotions... Where should I spread clues. .. It’s time to shop the history of the characters... there should be a crisis. The director’s narrative is very accurate, but also very regular.
The second is excessive lines. The film’s photography, art, and actors’ emotions are very restrained, but the narrative is strong, and the lines are too full, especially at the end of the dialogue between Cory and Jane. I think a lot of golden lines should not be said. Because the emotion you want to express here has already been gotten by the audience, it is really superfluous to say it in lines.
Taylor Sheridan’s director Virgo did not disappoint. From a textual perspective, he once again dedicated a genre film with sharp social criticism, full genre elements, full of emotions, and wonderful stories. From the director's point of view, we have at least seen a craftsman-type director who has a solid narrative, a proficient type structure, and a perfect integration of the author's expression into commercial films.
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