Wind River question for JackDawson and anyone else who has seen it already [Edit to say SPOILERS] -- (edited)
Posted by
con_carne
Aug 23 '17, 12:51
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OK. The scene with Renner and the bad guy alone on the mountaintop. I was so conflicted. Were you? I mean, it is a brilliant climactic scene, don't get me wrong. But, Renner pretty much murders the guy and makes him suffer. Which is wrong. On the other hand, I felt an extreme sense of "justice porn" satisfaction when that scene unfolded. So I loved what was happening to that guy, but at the same time I hated it (which I'm sure is the intended effect).
Later on, Renner's character explains to Olsen's that this land is a place where you either survive or you don't. "Luck is for the cities, not for this place." What I'm not quite grasping is, what is Renner's arc in that moment? Is he already completely a part of the harshness of that land, and he was already at the start of the movie? Has he always been murdering people in the wilderness, or is this his first time?
I think Renner is an okay actor, but I did not get the sense that murdering that guy was something unusual for him to do. Did Renner's character feel conflicted? I want to like his character, so I want to believe that that was a difficult choice for him to murder that guy and make him suffer in the snow. But I got no such indication from his acting. Renner killed that man as he would have the wolves. Or that "lion" the police chief kept mentioning. When he mentioned the "missing man" to the father in the last scenes, he was similarly matter-of-fact/emotionless.
There's a possibility that Renner's limitations in his acting abilities is failing me to understand that scene. But I want to give him the benefit of the doubt simply because Wind River is a great movie. I could be missing the point and feeling exactly what the director intended: extremely conflicted. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that this movie and that scene in particular is making me feel this way.
Thoughts? Any other clues in the screenplay that can help me understand that scene?
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con_carne
Aug 23, 13:33
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