Wind River Predator
Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River (2017) is a must-see film — especially if you’re a Jeremy Renner fan. Wind River is one of the best movies released this year. Sheridan creatively uses symbols of predator and prey along with ingeniously placed flashbacks to tell a brutal and heartbreaking murder story of a young woman from an Indian reservation in Wyoming.
Jeremy Renner is known for playing badass characters in movies like The Bourne Legacy (2012) as Aaron Cross, The Hurt Locker (2008) as Staff Sergeant William James, The Avengers (2012) and The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) as Hawkeye, and many more. It was obvious from the beginning that Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) was going to save the day. Cory is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife service tracker who knows his section of Wyoming better than anyone else on the planet. He drives a souped up 2016 Chevy Silverado and carries a lever-action Marlin 1895SBL .45–70 rifle. This is basically a giant, flashing neon sign that says: “BADA@#”. Knowing that Jeremy Renner is starring in this film, does give away who the hero is going to be. Although, this isn’t the most important part of the movie. The most important part is the story itself. How the murder played out and how a young Native American woman was found dead out in the middle of the cold Wyoming wilderness
Part of Cory’s job is to hunt predators that threaten the livestock of the Indians on the reservation. Throughout the movie Cory is tracking a family of mountain lions. I believe Sheridan uses the mountain lions, and an opening scene of Cory killing a coyote, as a symbol of what life is like in the Wind River area. Humans and animals are all alike in this region. You’re either a predator, or the prey. With the actual murder itself, or the all-out gunfire scene near the end of the movie, Sheridan uses natural predators of the area to describe the actions of these people. It is a very creative way of giving the movie an eerie, yet, needed detail that helps tell the tragic story.
I highly recommend this movie to anyone who is a Jeremy Renner fan, loves crime mysteries, wants to watch a film based on a true story, or just wants to watch a good movie.
