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Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2018)

"Wind River" is a mystery thriller directed by Taylor Sheridan. The cast of the film are remarkably known actors such as Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen.
The film is an engrossing story of a murder happening in Wyoming, Indian reservation. The beginning is quite attention grabbing and there is nary a clichÃ©. The movie starts with important statements which the director repeats several times throughout the film to make logical sequences and emphasize the importance of those words. A girl, after running barefoot in a severe cold, falls and drops dead. During his patrol, a wildlife tracker discovers the heinous death of the girl. An FBI agent is being sent to the city to investigate the case, who later teams up with the wildlife tracker.
After finding out that the girl was a victim of a gang rape, the team heads to find the real participants of the crime. Having tracked down the culprit, they leave him to a vigilante justice, barefoot and in sobs in the mountain.
The film is really gripping, the plot is developed well and all the characters are given time, importance and full revelation by scrupulously avoiding stereotypes. The violence is proper for the scenario and kept at a bare minimum not to cause a negative repulsion. The photography is very pretty and consistent with the scenes of the city. The director was very potent in portraying the "ignored" reality of American Indians and the acting of the cast conveyed the palpable sadness of the situation behind the cameras.
The director and the crew did a good job and put a lot effort and faith for the appreciation by the discerning audience, and that same fact is more than noteworthy.