In 2015, a mysterious agent instructed a rookie female agent to launch an operation on the border of the United States and Mexico to walk on the edge of morality. This story is called "Border Killer" .
In 2016, a pair of brothers who were tortured by poverty started a series of robberies in the desolate state of Texas, fighting their destined fate with their lives and blood. This story is called "Going Through Water and Fire" .
In 2017, in the wind and snow in the Wind River Valley on the Indian Reserve of Wyoming, the first two stories were entangled, mixed with the coldness of snow and the warmth of blood, forming a new story, this story, called " Hunting in the Valley of the Wind .
The reason why these three movies are put together is that the man named Taylor Sheridan , after writing the scripts of the two masterpieces "Border Killer" and "Going Through Fire", finally took the position of director. He personally directed and filmed this "Hunting for the Wind River Valley", which brought a successful conclusion to his "U.S. Border Trilogy" .
The Wind River Valley in Wyoming is an Indian reservation. To a large extent, it is not under the direct jurisdiction of the U.S. government, nor does it receive the "care" of the U.S. government. It is everywhere desolate and dilapidated. The winter here is always covered by thick snow. Covered, accompanied by heavy snow, are hungry wolves and lions. The experienced hunter Corey found the body of his friend’s daughter in the ice and snow, and this corpse also brought the young female FBI agent Jane who lacked actual combat experience to come here. The two cooperated in this ice and snow and began to crack this. The case, but as it progressed, something more terrifying than the blizzard and the beast was discovered.
I have to say that Sheridan's works have a strong personal mark, that is loneliness, loneliness in a broad context . In "Border Killer", this kind of loneliness is the long border of the US-Mexico border in the afterglow of the setting sun; in "Going Through Water and Fire", this kind of loneliness is the desolate and barren Texas farm; and in "Hunting the Wind River Valley" , The endless snowfields of the Wind River Valley amplify this loneliness to the extreme. In the vast snowfields, no matter how powerful a person is, he can’t bear the huge sense of loneliness, and this sense of loneliness will magnify everyone’s emotions infinitely. Even if he is a blank expression person, he will be His emotions were revealed between his gestures, just like the cry of the Indian father, and the tears in Corey's eyes when he interrogated the murderer.
In addition to loneliness, there is another point throughout the "American Border Trilogy", and that is helplessness . In "Border Killer", ideals and reality make female agents helpless, morality and vengeance make mysterious agents helpless; in "Going Through Fire", poor fate and rich dreams make the brothers helpless, duties and life make the old police officer helpless ; In "Hunting the Valley of the Wind", there are more helpless groups, such as Corey whose daughter died of unknown cause, Jane who committed danger alone, Indian youths who took drugs, couples who died tragically, and even the perpetrators themselves were all in In a helpless struggle. They don’t know the true evil, they are struggling with their own fate, but this snowy field will not sympathize with the weak, and will not give you a chance to reform. If you make a mistake, you will bear the result. All the grief and No sin will be redeemed, it will only be covered by the snow, and disappear forever in that whiteness.
The reason why "Hunting the Valley of the Wind" is a combination of the previous two works is that the character setting in this film completely continues the mysterious and calm middle-aged man partner of the inexperienced rookie female agent in "Border Killer". In terms of performance content, more of it continues the fateful struggle of people in "Going Through Water and Fire".
Like the previous two works, the ending of "Hunting the Wind River Valley" also reveals a deep sadness and political inaccuracy. According to the normal routine of this kind of movie, the end is the lone hero helping the inexperienced female police detective to capture or kill the real murderer, and then the two develop a beautiful love. But this film did not do this. The final solution to the murderer was not the female detective’s justice bullets and handcuffs, but Corey’s silent and cold lynching. The ending is not the sweet love of the heroine and the heroine, but Corey and the deceased’s father. Sitting quietly on the snow. This counter-mainstream ending leaves people with infinite aftertaste and can be called a classic.
The Indian girl who died at the beginning of the film had a strong will to survive. She ran barefoot for nearly ten kilometers in the ice and snow, but in the end she couldn't beat the cold to the lungs, and the young life disappeared in the vast snow.
At the end of the film, there are a few lines of subtitles, which tell us that in the statistics of missing women in the United States, there are no Indian women at all, and no one knows how many people they are missing . The linking up of this one and the other is an extremely sad fact. In the United States, which is highly advocating for human rights, these indigenous peoples are like forgotten groups. No one knows their names, no one listens to their stories, and no trace of them. People look for them, but no one collects their bones . This is the deeper aspect of the movie. Sheridan wants the audience to see not only a murder, but also arouse their attention to the growing group of Native Indians. This is also part of the "American Border Trilogy." The consistent theme is to pay attention to those marginalized and disadvantaged groups. With this core idea, these trilogy will naturally look better than each.
"I am running with the wind alone, your loving eyes are out of reach, winter here will never come" These soft singing voices have always appeared in the whole movie, like a gust of wind, Right by your side, you can easily ignore him. If you say that the United States, the world’s most developed country, is like those eyes full of love but out of reach, the Native Americans are always like children running in the wind alone. Winter is not never coming, but Never leave, this lonely child will be buried in the snow sooner or later, covered by the white snow, not only sin and sorrow, but also the helpless sighs of countless marginal groups.
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