I'm amazed at the positive reviews. This production is incredible in that it made accomplished actors like Schweig and Cardinal look like rank amateurs.
The plot was thick & plodding. The pace was painful ... not slow, just excruciating. The characters were one dimensional; caricatures of the depressed, angry, righteous, good, bad ... in other words obsequiously portrayed. It's disgraceful to the First People.
Seriously, anyone who has lived or spent time on the rez (lived on 2 & visited many) knows that even in the worst of conditions folks laugh .... a lot. Yes, they get angry, cry ... over-use substances ... like everybody off the rez, but there is joy. To say this was joyless is an understatement.
Ramming the f-bomb into every line is the laziest screenwriting I've seen. Just plain gross.
The plot was thick & plodding. The pace was painful ... not slow, just excruciating. The characters were one dimensional; caricatures of the depressed, angry, righteous, good, bad ... in other words obsequiously portrayed. It's disgraceful to the First People.
Seriously, anyone who has lived or spent time on the rez (lived on 2 & visited many) knows that even in the worst of conditions folks laugh .... a lot. Yes, they get angry, cry ... over-use substances ... like everybody off the rez, but there is joy. To say this was joyless is an understatement.
Ramming the f-bomb into every line is the laziest screenwriting I've seen. Just plain gross.