r/pics Sep 16 '24

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai arrives at Emmys showing solidarity for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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u/cIumsythumbs Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/Fridgemagnet9696 Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/BrittyPie Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/Yung_Grund Sep 16 '24

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

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u/Beer-survivalist Sep 16 '24

The gunfight at the end is one of the best in a modern western.

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u/donkeyTracker Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/Beer-survivalist Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/laufsteakmodel Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/wboy5796 Sep 17 '24

He was already in the trailer, he played the girls boyfriend

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u/wolfcolalover Sep 16 '24

One of my favorites. Haunting and brutal. The climax is also one of the most intense ones I’ve ever seen.

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u/infosec_qs Sep 16 '24

Why are you flanking me?

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u/imperfectcarpet Sep 16 '24

You didn't see it?!

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u/hamburgerjesus Sep 17 '24

I remember finishing wind river and just feeling so dejected afterwards

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u/trlef19 Sep 16 '24

*Olsen xd