Wind River 4K 2017 Ultra HD 2160p

Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) after the death of his daughter has found a job where no one will bother him, all day long he disappears away from the crowds. His job for the Department of Hunting and Fisheries is to keep the predator population within the necessary limits, i.e. to shoot. One day, while on the former Wind River Indian Reservation, he discovers the body of a girl who has been raped and murdered. His “find” interests not only the local police, but also the FBI, which sends its agent to investigate. Since the case is not the most high-profile, the choice falls on a recent graduate of the Academy (Elizabeth Olsen). Arriving on the spot, she realizes that it will be very difficult for her without a guide in these wild lands and turns to Lambert for help.

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Professional hunter Corey (Jeremy Renner) finds the corpse of a local girl, a former friend of his dead daughter, near the Wind River Indian Reservation. The deceased died of hypothermia, but she was brutally raped before her death, and the Indian police determine that the girl died because she ran away from her rapist half-naked in the snow. It's a serious enough crime to call in the FBI, but since it's not a “straight” murder, the bureau only sends in an inexperienced female officer, Jane (Elizabeth Olsen), who can do little to help. The woman quickly realizes she can't do it without the help of Corey, who knows the reservation and the surrounding forests and mountains very well.

The film won the director's prize of the Un Certain Regard program at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as an eight-minute ovation from the audience
The second full-length directorial work of Taylor Sheridan, television actor and screenwriter of thrillers “The Killer” and “At Any Price”, begins very strongly. The picture in gloomy colors paints a depressing life in the mountainous backwoods, where colonists once drove Indians. Now local boys sit on drugs and dream of revenge against “pale-faces”, local girls are looking for white suitors who would take them far away from their native places, and resigned adults pull their burden from day to day and sadly philosophize about suffering. In turn, the few whites like Cory balance on the edge between worlds. To the Indians, they are almost their own, but only if they have Indian kin (Corey was married to an Indian woman and has half-breed children).

The action of “Wind River” develops in a leisurely but exciting way. The movie does not rush to the goal, but allows you to listen to the conversations of the characters, look into their existence, enjoy the harsh beauty of nature ... The tape draws convex psychological portraits, draws the attention of viewers to the shameful legal nuances of relations between white and “red” Americans, and it seems that the picture deserves a very high evaluation and strong recommendation - at least for all fans of thoughtful and artistically verified detectives.

Instead of Jeremy Renner, the main role could play Chris Pine. He left the project when he got a role in “Wonder Woman”
However, after an hour and a half after the beginning of “Wind River” remembers that it does not have another hour and a half to complete the investigation in the same rhythm in which it was held until then. So the picture out of the blue gives a flashback with an explanation of what happened to the unfortunate victim, and then quickly wraps up by showing first a bloody shootout and then a violent epilogue.

It's shocking, and not in a good way, but in a bad way, because such a “surprise ending” becomes a betrayal of everything Wind River had previously accomplished. A thoughtful psychological investigation suddenly turns into a straightforward action-agitpropaganda about how wrong it is to offend Indian women. For some reason the picture ends with a political title that has little to do with what happened, but not, for example, with nightmarish statistics on the rape of Indian women and the punishment of white criminals (such cases rarely go to trial, even if the villain is known). If you're going to agitate on this topic, go all the way and hit it hard!

Fortunately, these unpleasant twists do not override the power of the preceding scenes and do not spoil the impression of the excellent performance of Jeremy Renner in the heartfelt image of “real man” and from the charisma of the surrounding Indian actors - especially Graham Greene (series “Longmire” and “Challenge”) and Gil Birmingham (“Twilight”). Elizabeth Olsen also looks decent, but her role is much less significant than it may seem in the movie's plot. In fact, Jane is in the picture only to emphasize how little the federal government does for the backwoods Indians. Human sympathy is a good thing, but it is not enough!

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (84.4 Mb/s)
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

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#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#Hungarian: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#Czech: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

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