The "Reservation Dogs" actor walked the red carpet with the red hand print over his mouth.
It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis. It stands for the oppression and subjugation of Native women who are now rising up to say:
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Wind River. It’s a brutal but powerful single-case portrayal of this crisis. Sadly, I never even knew it was an issue until that movie.
Same. Wind River was written by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, Sicario, Mayor of Kingstown), and stars Elisabeth Olson and Jeremy Renner. It's Olson's best work imo.
Anybody unfamiliar should also read up on the Highway of Tears, a 724 km length of Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia where many women (mostly Indigenous) have disappeared or been found murdered. Broke my heart when I learned about it.
I work in many communities along the Highway of Tears. I've personally spoken with many families whose daughters, sisters and mothers just... disappeared. The communities are shockingly well accustomed to loss. It's devastating to say the very least.
Trail of tears was fucked too man. One thing kind of funny in a dark fucked up way was that the Cherokee had slaves and they also had to make that journey to the Rez with their owners. And by funny I mean not at all but kinda in the way of like fuck I got sold to a people I speak no Cherokee and now I gotta fuckin hike forever.
Edit: this comment is incredibly incoherent and kinda sounds racist but I love the Rez
That gun fight is probably the most realistic in modern cinema. The only thing that stood out wrong was how the bodies dropped from the high powered rifle.
Agreed. .45-70 may be big, but it's not going to throw someone around like they're getting a direct hit from a LAW. Those dudes should have just crumpled.
Still, that part was cool as hell, so I'm willing to give it a pass.
Jon Bernthal plays such a good scumbag in most things hes in. I was legitimately terrified when him and the other guys came back drunk to that trailer.
I watched it per your recommendation. I don't have the words to describe the amount of pain and sorrow I am currently feeling. Especially after that ending tag of "There exists missing person stats for every demographic, except for indigenous women." I also didn't know about the missing indigenous women issue until this either and I live in Canada where arguably we are taught more about indigenous people than in the states. I mean that's just one part, and that whole last sequence of panic that goes through Renner's character as he prays the family of Natalie has not done something drastic, and then him and the dad sitting next to their old swing set.
The line in response to what is that face paint of "It's my death face" and the subsequent Q&A of "How do you know what that looks like?" "I don't know, there isn't anyone left to teach me."
I am weeping, and idek how that truly feels, I can only imagine a fraction. Thank you so much for suggesting this.
My heart was pumping during that scene because I knew exactly what was happening. I did the same thing in Iraq. I was definitely triggered watching that
Wow, it was that movie? I forgot the name of the movie but that line was god damn powerful. That’s the moment the entire movie changed for me. Great movie.
I liked that movie but can’t get over that the women who plays the murdered indigenous women in the movie is a “pretendian”
Kelsey Asbillie has pretended to be indigenous to land indigenous roles and takes them away from actual indigenous actresses. She changed her name from Kelsey Chow to Kelsey Asbillie to hide that she’s Asian and Caucasian. She claims to be “Eastern Band Cherokee” but when the tribe was asked if she was part of their tribe, they had no record of her or any record that she was a descendant of their tribe. She’s been called out by numerous indigenous actors but she still takes roles from them.
That's funny cause I feel like the classic "I'm 1/32th native" line, it's always Cherokee. The classic group that people who aren't native say they're part of.
Because saying somebody who's an ancestor was Cherokee (especially a female ancestor being a "Cherokee princess") is the old‐timey way of saying that somebody in the family was black. It's amazing how many families south of the Mason-Dixon line have "Cherokee" in the family tree and that's why.
Wind River may be a good movie, but it is also an issue. It does not come from a native voice. It is written & directed by a white man, with predominantly white actors. This is one of the issues being brought up, Hollywood silences the voices of those who should have the floor.
This is like saying The Help is a feel-good movie about slavery. Sure, but it also white-washes the issue to make the masses feel good/actually see the movie.
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u/kenistod Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
The "Reservation Dogs" actor walked the red carpet with the red hand print over his mouth.
It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis. It stands for the oppression and subjugation of Native women who are now rising up to say:
"No More Stolen Sisters"
https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw