Question about the end of Wind River

Submitted by quadeyes21 t3_10ocyej in movies

I just watched Wind River last night, and I thought it was a great movie that really emphasized the isolation and lack of authority in places like Wyoming, especially on reservation land, even in the modern day.

However, I’m a little confused about one part during the climactic shootout scene shootout scene. At around 1:35 here, the leader of the private security force says that two of the guys on his side aren’t getting up. Then one of the security guys tries to get up, and the leader shoots him in the head immediately. Why? I’m probably just missing something super obvious, but I’m pretty sure he just killed one of his own contractors, right? At that point all the ‘good guys’ besides Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner were dead.

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MN-Jess t1_j6dvk5m wrote

There are two different law enforcement vs the security. The regular police got the greenish jackets. Tribal police got blue ones that kinda look like the security ones. But you can tell them apart because they got their bullet proof vest on the outside of their jackets.

You can see here, the police, including the one you think is security go to the right.

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quadeyes21 OP t1_j6dyeqo wrote

Ah okay thank you, this makes a lot more sense now, I can even see they have different patches on their shoulders. I wonder why the tribal police guy spoke up when he could’ve played dead.

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howdy_goy t1_j6ejdw0 wrote

This has always confused me… Even though I know there’s two different cop uniforms going on, whenever I watch this scene, it strikes me as odd that they would choose to make one of the coo uniforms almost identical in color to the bad guys’ uniforms. Makes it so confusing, especially because they are involved in a rapid-fire, close-quartered shootout. Why?

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juicebox03 t1_j6ey1w6 wrote

I just did a Wind River, Scicario, Hell or High Water watch. Love all three.

In Wind River, what does Jeremy Renner’s character see at the mountain lion den? Human remains of other women that those people have probably raped and killed?

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98redd t1_j6eykz4 wrote

Jon bernthals characters remains

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juicebox03 t1_j6eyspz wrote

But didn’t they find his body? Being eaten by the birds?

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98redd t1_j6ezfd7 wrote

I havent watched the movie in a while but I’m pretty sure only 2 bodies get found, the native girl in the beginning and Jon bernthals after Jeremy Renee’s character follows the snow mobile tracks from the security camp up the mountain to lions den where they dump his body

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HonorableDuckNoPants t1_j6du7rd wrote

Probably would’ve been too much effort to keep him alive and quiet when he’s that seriously injured. It was just easier to kill him and get rid of the body.

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TrueLegateDamar t1_j6dw207 wrote

Especially if they did the only remotely sensible thing and made a run for it inmediatly afterwards, the longer the authorities and feds would be looking for the missing people, the more time they got to scatter and run for the airport or border.

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JeanPicLucard t1_j6dwnvq wrote

The last security guard standing killed one of the officers who was crawling

Edit: I guess I'm wrong. I just read the script and the wounded security guard is killed by his teammate. Guess he was too wounded.

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quadeyes21 OP t1_j6e0fki wrote

I think u/MN-Jess ‘s explanation is correct, he kills a tribal police guy, who are dressed very similar to the security.

In the script here it looks like there were originally two people, one security contractor who said he could get up, and then one Bureau of Indian Affairs officer who got shot in the head by Curtis. I guess when they actually filmed it, they condensed it into one person and just made the tribal police guy say he was going to get up and then get killed

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terminalblue t1_j6e6n9b wrote

wind river is a white savior fantasy run Wild.

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kingblade3 t1_j6gk8wm wrote

the funniest comments are ones like this that drop outrageous, intentionally wrong statements while giving zero reasoning. props.

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terminalblue t1_j6gkqdv wrote

weird how I am not wrong and the statement is not outrageous.. and honestly most of sheridan's work is mostly white savior jerk off material.

sorry you can not see that.

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Snarfly99 t1_j6hzzcp wrote

Everything you just said is objectively incorrect, at least of his movies

Emily Blunt doesn’t save anyone in Sicario…she fails to stop Alejandro from flat out executing a mother and her two small children in Mexico. She completely alienated her morals by signing the affidavit about it afterwards instead of eating the bullet

Chris Pine’s HOHW robbery plan gets two innocent bank customers and a Texas Ranger murdered because he involved his violent/sociopath brother in his scheme. He knows his is now the sole focus of a retired, widowed Ranger who would have probably shot him on site if his family didn’t pull up. Ensuring his children are wealthy doesn’t mean he isn’t also as big a shitbag as his brother was

Jeremy Renner and Liz Olsen couldn’t save any Tribal or state police from the security contractors, proving the theme that when outsiders mettle in Reservation Affairs it’s the Native Americans that pay the price. Wind River is still poverty stricken and Renner’s daughter’s murder is still unsolved, much like the many real world unsolved murders of Indigenous women in America

Jeremy Renner going on a killing spree and leaving Pete to die on the mountain doesn’t make him a white savior, it makes him a vigilante

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