The plot of the Hunting in the Wind River Valley is relatively simple. Hunter Corey found the corpse of a young girl while hunting the mountain lion. Out of guilt for his daughter, coupled with sympathy for the fate of his fellow tribe, Corey helped FBI agents investigate the murder. Through the girl's younger brother Chip, Corey and the others learned the clues of the death girl Natalie's boyfriend Matt. Corey and his team came to Matt’s residence to investigate and found that the person working with Matt was the murderer. After a gunfight between the police and the murderer, Corey finally solved the murderer with his superb marksmanship, and the story ended.
Watching this film, I unconsciously remembered Xiao Lizi's wilderness hunter. The elements reflected in the two films overlap in many places, such as marriage, race, survival, environment, betrayal, and murder. However, the Hunter Wind Valley focuses more on the humanistic part, which is very different from the wilderness hunter’s emphasis on the environment. I won’t go into details about Wilderness Hunter. Next, I will analyze the humanities of this film.
Racial conflicts. Racial conflict in the United States is an enduring topic. The United States is a country of immigrants with a vast territory. White people live in the upper echelons of the country. Although other people of color can rely on the American political system to obtain certain political rights, they are still unequal compared with white people. The Indians, Native Americans, lost in the war with European immigrants and were forced to abandon their ancestral lands and move west to the reservations given to them by the whites. The history of the United States is a history of blood and tears of Indians. The persecution of Indians by white Americans has continued to the present, which is what it is in the film.
The Indian reservation where Corey lives is barren, sparsely populated, and the climate is cold, with wild animals infested from time to time. Such a living environment has had a great impact on the Indians living there. Chip is a typical example. Chip is young, but he doesn't want to make progress. He only knows to deal with a bunch of Indian gangsters and proletarians. His dream is to be caught in jail, and then join the ranks of gangsters and proletarians to vent his dissatisfaction with the society as a whole. Corey feels deeply about this, but he knows that chip is still young and there are too many possibilities in life, so he kindly persuades chip to point out a life path for chip.
I am not gona stand here and tell you that life is fair cause it is not. To either of us.
I will not tell you that life is fair, because it is inherently unfair. It's not fair to anyone.
This is what Corey said to chip. Corey also told chip that people cannot fight against the world, and people can only change themselves. Chip is not a hopeless diehard. At the end of the film, Corey contacted his father Martin and told his father that he was going to the outside world to make a breakthrough, rekindling the hope of the father who lost his beloved daughter. At the same time, this is also a symbol. If Indians actively integrate into American society, in a society that advocates hard work, Indians can find their place in American society. The development of Indians is now prevented. It is not white people, but precisely. It's the Indians themselves who are self-defeating.
Family conflicts. Corey and his wife took good care of their daughter in every possible way and prepared everything for her daughter, but due to an oversight, the cause of her daughter's death was unknown and her body was ruined by wolves. The death of his daughter created a rift between Corey and his wife. The Martin family also faced problems. Daughter Natalie wanted to leave the Indian reservation to live in a big American city, but unfortunately died. His son Chip was a bad boy. Family conflicts are the result of survival dilemmas. Martin had no hope for life, and even asked Corey to avenge his daughter no matter who the murderer was, even his son chip. The Indians who were unable to integrate into American society faced the fate of genocide. In the end, Corey failed to save his wife, but Martin found hope in life. The plight of the Indians will continue for some time, and everything depends on the Indians themselves.
Survival contradictions. The Indian reservation is far away from the economic center of the United States. It is barren, cold, and inconvenient to make the Indians living here poor and hopeless. Not only poverty, the Indians even fought for survival, against the beasts. Cougars come to hunt, and wolves come and go frequently, so Corey, the "hunter", has room for survival. Poverty makes the people who live here abandon themselves, just like chip said, i get so mad i wanna fight the whole world (I'm going crazy, I want to oppose the whole world). There is hatred in the hearts of the suppressed nation towards the entire society, whether it is good or bad. Corey is wise, he made Chip understand that he can't beat the world, and he made Chip understand that fate is in his own hands. Finally chip embarked on the right path.
At this point, take the perspective away from the Indians and focus on the whites. In fact, inequality is not only for Indians, but also for whites. Pete, the culprit of the murder, when Corey interrogated him, Pete defended himself, which was simply outrageous. A reserved area left by the whites to the Indians, an icy world where the Indians struggled hard for survival. The whites even felt that they couldn't stand it. There was no woman, no beer, no recreation, and finally committed rape and murder. The suffering of the Indians in modern times can be seen. In the end, Corey let Pete die in the snow barefoot like Natalie, which is regarded as revenge for Natalie.
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