I believe this is from the slow cinema school. A sort of docu-wagon train. It starts as it goes as it finishes. The film manages to convey the awful tedium and hardship of the wagon trail. But I didn't really want to feel the same emotions at the end of the movie! It just doesn't do anything but observe. The dialogue is deep and meaningless, if you can make out what they are saying.
As to the introduction of a lone Indian (who looks well past his sell by date) to liven up the plot... Sorry it lost me there too! Ok there are great examples of race and gender politics but it's so obvious. It's got great actors but not one of them is fleshed out as a character you can get into.
And finally and bizarrely for a movie set in the desolate plains, the movie is filmed in some odd square cinematography (unless the Phoenix had an aberrations. Not one to remember is the best I can say.
As to the introduction of a lone Indian (who looks well past his sell by date) to liven up the plot... Sorry it lost me there too! Ok there are great examples of race and gender politics but it's so obvious. It's got great actors but not one of them is fleshed out as a character you can get into.
And finally and bizarrely for a movie set in the desolate plains, the movie is filmed in some odd square cinematography (unless the Phoenix had an aberrations. Not one to remember is the best I can say.
