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The 2K Arri-Alexa cameras have captured some extremely detailed footage and this transfer is a reflection of the strengths and weaknesses of that particular footage in addition to the color correction choices made by the filmmakers for its theatrical release. It’s a reasonably attractive menu and intuitive to navigate. The animated menus employ footage from the film accompanied by some of the sound design featured therein. It is a reasonably attractive if standard package. The case is further protected by a slip sleeve that features this same design. The disc is protected in a standard Blu-ray case with film-related artwork. It is too bad that there aren’t fewer “tent-pole” movies produced and more films like this one released every year. I think that the great challenges for the studios when they make, you know, these massive tent-pole movies, where, you know, in order to recoup their costs they need many millions of people to go see them-and there, you do need to have a broad appeal, which makes it more difficult and challenging to say something that might be controversial or uncomfortable.” -Taylor Sheridan (NPR, August 5, 2017) So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience-one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually. “You know, the movies I make-the goal isn’t a mass audience. Thankfully, this was not the case here, and the subject matter reflects this fact. Too many films are made for viewers with ridiculously feeble minds and short attention spans. It is a languidly paced effort that allows the viewer to absorb the rough terrain and get to know the characters involved-a fact that some critics have written about as if this were one of the film’s negative attributes despite the fact that it is in actuality one of its strengths.
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Their mission is to find out who is responsible for the raping and inevitable death of one of the reservation’s young women. The film follows a relatively green FBI agent (Elisabeth Olsen) who teams up with a game tracker with deep community ties to the Wind River Indian reservation where he lives and works. And it gets no attention, which is the motivation for writing. But, really, in the past 15, 20 years, it’s exploded.
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“This issue with sexual assault against women on the reservation-I mean, it’s existed since the inception of a reservation system. A DVD edition of the film is also available. Notes: This Blu-ray comes with an Ultraviolet copy of the movie. Main Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio