Wind River (2017) - Me And My Shit!

★★★☆☆

This is not a detective story made up to play smart and pull a trick on you. It’s based on true events, and the crime itself is not of a mystery or a puzzle designed to confuse or blow your mind! There’s basically nothing too dramatic or shocking. The film’s in fact pretty honest and melancholic. It introduces a new angle to look at things like pain, suffering and grief, which I quite appreciate indeed!

‘Wind River’ is set in snow-covered Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, where things appear to be quite boring and upsetting since there’s nothing but thick snow, mountains, tress, wild animals and few cowboys and American Indians living far away from each other. A saying that where you live could have a great effect on the way you behave. So it’s said that up right there on reservations there’re thousands of sexual assaults of women. It’s true that it’s not the place you live in that matters after all. It’s how you look at it. It’s the people. But I guess it’s always easier to leave it than to change the way you look at it. For most of the time, we think we are our mind’s boss but actually our mind is our boss! Overestimating your ability to control your mind then your action, is as a result of your ego expanding, which could be rather devastating if you let it.

The punishment for the murderer in the end appears to be a bit cruel but necessary sometimes, as you know, to be able to walk in one’s shoes is a prerequisite for achieving real communication and understanding between two individuals. If you really understand the other, you wouldn’t possibly think of hurting him or her. The reason why such nasty things as revealed in the film frequently happen is that people nowadays have become less interested in spiritual paths but more indulgent in materialistic worlds. Therefore, there’s always me, my wants and needs, my feelings, my frustrations, my happiness, my loneliness and shit!