美国国家公共电台 NPR Loss Piles Up Deep As Wyoming Snow Drifts In 'Wind River'

 

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

Taylor Sheridan has been making a name for himself as a screenwriter who tells stories set in the American West. His drug cartel movie "Sicario" took place on the U.S.-Mexico border. His Oscar-nominated police procedural "Hell Or High Water" roamed all over Texas. And now he has both written and directed a film set on a Native American reservation. It's called "Wind River." Here's our critic Bob Mondello.

BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE¹: Wyoming - an icy, moonlit landscape - no one anywhere for miles except a teenage girl running in the snow, terrified and barefoot.

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KELSEY ASBILLE: (As Natalie, screaming).

MONDELLO: She falls, gets up, runs some more. The next scene is in bright daylight, a wolf stalking a flock of sheep. A shot rings out as it's felled by a marksman who, in his snow camouflage² gear, blends into the landscape. Played by Jeremy Renner, this guy, Cory, also blends in socially, though there aren't many folks to blend in with. He has a Native American wife and son.

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JEREMY RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) I got to go to the res (ph) tomorrow, figure I take Casey by to see your folks.

JULIA JONES: (As Wilma) Something killed a yearling in the pasture behind their house.

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) Yeah, that's why I'm going. Case (ph)...

TEO BRIONES: (As Casey) Dad?

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) Come on, bud.

BRIONES: (As Casey) OK. I'm coming.

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) Time to go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's your BB gun pointed³ at right now?

MONDELLO: Pointing the gun away, a sheepish Casey drops his bag.

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RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) Come down here.

BRIONES: (As Casey) Sorry, Dad.

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) What's the rule, bud - gun's always loaded, even if it ain't, right?

BRIONES: (As Casey) Yes.

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) OK.

MONDELLO: Mentoring⁴ is something Corey does almost without thinking, passing on skills, insights, knowledge, a trait that will soon come in handy. While looking for the mountain lion that killed that yearling, he comes across the body of the teenage girl we saw earlier frozen in the snow.

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RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) I need emergency assistance.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) What's your location?

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) The Wind River Indian Reservation.

MONDELLO: An FBI agent is flown in from Vegas dressed for cold in Vegas, notes the local sheriff.

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ELIZABETH OLSEN: (As Jane Banner) I'm Jane Banner, FBI.

GRAHAM GREENE: (As Ben) Welcome to Wyoming - all by yourself?

OLSEN: (As Jane Banner) It's just me.

GREENE: (As Ben) That's Cory Lambert. He's the one who found the body.

MONDELLO: Once they get to the site, Jane, played by Elizabeth Olsen, realizes she's out of her depth. She sees evidence of foul⁵ play. But Cory, a tracker, looks at the girl's footprints in the snow and sees a whole story unfolding - more mentoring.

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RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) She ran until she dropped here. See the pool of blood where her face hit the snow? Now, it gets to 20 below here at night, so if you fill your lungs up with that cold air and you're running, you could freeze them up. Your lungs fill up with blood. You start coughing it up. So wherever she came from...

MONDELLO: He looks around. There's nothing - nothing at all.

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RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) She ran all the way here. Her lungs burst here. She curled up in that tree line and drowned in her own blood.

OLSEN: (As Jane Banner) Well, how far do you think someone could run barefoot out here?

RENNER: (As Cory Lambert) Oh, I don't know. How do you case someone's will to live, especially in these conditions? But I knew that girl. She's a fighter. So no matter how far you think she ran, I can guarantee you she ran further.

MONDELLO: If that sounds like dialogue from a classic Western, poetic⁶ in its spareness, that's by design. Writer and director Taylor Sheridan makes contemporary films that, for all practical purposes, are westerns. And he deals with a host of current social issues in the process. His characters are pushed to extremes by circumstances - not just that girl who ran 6 miles barefoot in the snow but her parents, played by indigenous⁷ actors Gil Birmingham and Tantoo Cardinal⁸ - and even the bad guys.

Sheridan paints a searing picture of lives on society's margins⁹, people who live with the silence and snow and not much else. He's made Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen icons¹⁰ while keeping them real, which allows the sense of loss in "Wind River" to pile up deep as snow drifts. I'm Bob Mondello.

1 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

2 camouflage   

n./v.掩饰，伪装

参考例句：

• The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.北极熊身上的白色的浓密软毛是一种天然的伪装。
• The animal's markings provide effective camouflage.这种动物身上的斑纹是很有效的伪装。

3 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

4 mentoring   

n.mentoring是一种工作关系。mentor通常是处在比mentee更高工作职位上的有影响力的人。他/她有比‘mentee’更丰富的工作经验和知识，并用心支持mentee的职业（发展）。v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
• Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网

5 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

6 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

7 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

8 cardinal   

n.(天主教的)红衣主教；adj.首要的，基本的

参考例句：

• This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。
• The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火，脸涨得通红。

9 margins   

边( margin的名词复数 )； 利润； 页边空白； 差数

参考例句：

• They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
• To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。

10 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓