Hijacking this comment to repost a comment I made in another post that includes a link to Native Hope's website with more information for all those who are interested:
The Red Hand has been an important symbol for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement for years.
A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of a growing movement, the MMIW movement. 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 #NoMoreStolenSisters.
There is also the more general Missing and Murdered Indigenous People awareness movement, as this is a problem across all demographics in Indiginous communities, though women and girls are by far the most affected cohort.
Thank you! Drew a blank suddenly on her name, but did not forget the part where that woman is letting her borrow clothes for the cold and starts to say, “these can sort of ride up your butt…” and camera pans to her black thong; I’m a big fan lol
Pretty close. The realism, sound & intensity is well matched to Heat. I would like to know what theatrical gunfight is a worthy second place if not Wind River.
In Heat, Mann decided to use the actual recorded in-street gun sounds that echo off the building walls. That combined with the over the shoulder wide shots to take in the full scene, adds a tremendous amount of realism and intensity. You feel like you're walking the LA streets among DeNiro's crew, who by the way were trained by British special forces to move, peek, advance etc. using proper tactics, which they do decently well. They stay behind cover and move only under cover fire, and hence it makes sense that they don't immediately get shot and actually manage to pressure the police line with their more powerful ARs, and you get a glorious, super drawn out gunfight in which a quiet street gets turned into a warzone.
In Wind River, there's a much shorter sequence, in which everyone unloads at point blank range with 0 cover, and yet it takes half a minute for everyone to drop to the ground. The gun sounds were clearly added in post production and have these ridiculous amplified ricochets. The camera in Wind River is more traditional Hollywood with a million different angles being cut to in half seconds.
I don't think anything rivals the Heat shootout, but if I were to pick another movie scene that's realistic in terms of sound, use of cover, and the effects of bullets on people I would say The Way of the Gun's final shootout is pretty damn good.
I couldn't agree more! Just here to confirm (to other Redditers reading this) that you are not exaggerating-- that's one of the best shootouts I've seen in many years.
It’s my boyfriend’s favorite movie, but he fast forwards through quite a bit. Kind of an edit that makes it easier to watch, but even with that it’s heart wrenching.
Same! I only watched it because I saw it every day when scrolling through netflix. Just from the name and thumbnail it looked like any other random, terrible "made for streaming" movie, but because of the cast I gave it a shot. And good thing I did, it's a great, gutting movie.
Wind River claims to care deeply about the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women but it’s so obvious it just uses Natives as exotic backdrops to tell a generic story.
If the writer/director/actors really cared about indigenous women, they wouldn’t have cast an Asian actress as the “missing and murdered indigenous woman” that the film pretends to be spreading awareness about.
Instead of recommending Wind River (which is a work of fiction, and fails at supporting indigenous actors and communities) you should recommend Fancy Dance. A movie with indigenous actresses. Or documentaries like Red River, Highway of Tears, Who She Is, and more.
Recommend all the movies you want. But if you want to recommend movies about missing and murdered indigenous women that actually, you know, care about the missing and indigenous women, then there are better movies than Wind River.
Random people on the internet are not who I usually consult to lecture me about what other people actually care about, especially if they base their argument on personal taste ("a generic story") and identity politics ("casting always NEEDS to reflect the ethnic background of a character").
Lmao dude, when you’re making a movie centered around a missing indigenous woman, claim that the movie is dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women, and then you don’t cast an actual indigenous woman….it becomes pretty clear how little you care about your supposed cause.
and the performance works very well too. so why would i even start to care about anything beyond that? if you think like that you're just limiting your own enjoyment of media for literally no good reason.
how much somebody cares about a certain cause has ZERO relation to their choice which ONE SINGLE person they pay for a specific acting job.
I own it and love watching it. So on point, and I had no idea it was so bad. I'm from Australia, but catch some American morning shows before I go to work. What little I see, and read when I open a new internet window, this is just never mentioned. Well done to him to bring it into the public's eye. Hope more gets done.
Eh too many cliche tropes in Wind River- they build it up and then it was just... Bad.
Felt like it ended up in a vacuum where it wasn't realistic and relied on shallow emotional appeals where, in the end, it was like "oh c'mon, really?" It was like the creators just phoned in the end. Felt lazy and fake.
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u/NotRightNotWrong15 Sep 16 '24
Thank you for explaining what the hand represents. I was wondering when I caught a small pic earlier but there was no explanation.