I have a soft spot for modern-day Westerns. I enjoy the odd older Western from time to time, and I can certainly appreciate them for being the foundation of the Western genre, but personally, contemporary versions of the category are my preference.
On the topic of Westerns, the other night I watched The Bygone via Netflix. The Bygone depicts the relationship between Kip, a young rancher, and Waniya, a young Lakota woman, and as the plot progresses, it becomes apparent that the stark differences in their lives ultimately unite them. Kip meets Waniya at a brothel in his hometown, where she works, and their first encounter involves Kip rescuing Waniya from an abusive client and enabling her to escape. As their relationship intensifies, it is revealed that Waniya was forced into the sex trafficking world and reluctantly works for a man named Paris, and despite Kip’s best efforts to free her from such a troubling realm, Paris is persistent and determined to prevent Waniya from being free.
Graham Phillips plays Kip (he also directed and helped write the movie) while Sydney Schafer plays Waniya, and the character of Paris is portrayed by Shawn Hatosy. The acting in this movie is fantastic, in my opinion, and the movie itself is based on a true story with testimony from actual victims of sexual assault.
This movie technically falls into the crime, drama and mystery genres, but it has a definite Western vibe to it as a result of Kip being a rancher. It is emotional, troubling, and its subject matter is fact, making it absolutely worth anyone’s while to give it a watch. After doing some research it is fair to say that this film has mixed reviews, but personally, I think it is very well done, and it is without a doubt worth watching.
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The movie is full of holes and the rancher Kip is made out to be a pussy. Ranchers are some tough motherfuckers. Director of this sucks.
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I appreciate your input, and I have to say your comments made me laugh pretty hard. Thanks for reading!
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Professional film critic eh?🙄
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I also liked this movie a lot and I believe it is essentially a real-life story, or based on a real-life story. “Racism” is a mild description of the kind of evil captured in the movie.
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I absolutely agree with you. Thank you for reading! I’m glad you also enjoyed this film.
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Although I found the film wildly unbelievable I enjoyed it
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Thank you so much for reading and for your opinion on the movie!
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Wow,I never expected the cave and all that happened there. They cut off the women’s breasts and vaginas and made tobacco pouches and they were sold to the public. That’s not in the movie,but seeing this,it’s obvious how they proceeded to do that I really have witnessed and experience much evil,torture and murder of innocent’s,animal and human, and I think I hate people. Except for the kids and the victims and some individuals.everyine seems to be taken over by something,a personality .in life, But the event from cave in seemed to much, over the top,so I googled if based on true story. Im angry and sickened it seems so. No one cares about them then, they had no one they could go to,and God help us all, but it’s here for all of us,now. And if it’s not obvious to you all, soon.God doesn’t forget. He cares.
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Thank you so much for reading and for sharing your opinion. Sadly, you are absolutely right – humans are some of the worst evil in this world. It is atrocious knowing some of the events that occurred throughout history and still today.
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