a tranquil nightmare. maybe men have been making westerns wrong this whole time 🤨
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Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Meek's Cutoff
An atmospheric, slow-burn western.
Western
History
Drama
2011
1h 43m
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
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Cast & crew
6What people say
cotton dresses, dirty hands, unintelligible men, tiny drawings on a vast indifferent canvas, "this was written long before we got here", distant/following/spying camera, aspect ratio like tunnel vision/horse blinders/looking down the barrel of a gun (or looking into the barrel of a gun/looking into an empty barrel). meek is cut off. this movie has a lot of puns, each short interaction says more than most movies do with an entire chatty script and the camera does just as much of the talking. i'd call this "slow cinema", except there's always something happening if you're paying attention.youtu.be/s5ywIVBBt-Y
Hardly anything happens in this movie. Watching it is kind of like playing Oregon Trail on the slowest setting without all the excitement of trying to kill off the people traveling with you. I LOVED IT.
Common questions
What is Meek's Cutoff about?+
A group of nineteenth-century pioneers traveling the Oregon Trail hire a guide who leads them astray in the high desert.
Who directed Meek's Cutoff?+
Meek's Cutoff was directed by American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt in 2011.
Is Meek's Cutoff based on a true story?+
Yes, the film draws from historical accounts of pioneer Stephen Meek leading a wagon train off-course along the Oregon Trail in 1845.
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