This movie is different, it's just too peaceful, there's no violent conflict, and it doesn't have any intense drama and action fights. If you want to express, the director can intersperse these elements and create tension in the plot. So I believe director Carrie Reichardt avoided it on purpose, she just wanted to make a story set in the frontiers that happened to be calm and slightly sad. At the beginning of the film, a modern steamship sails across the lake, and the little boy and his dog discover human skeletons in a suburban open space. The significance of the appearance of the ship is to be used as a reference for time, because the next camera will take us into Oregon in the 1920s, and we will also know the owners of these skeletons and their stories.
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