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Woman Walks Ahead
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  • jibansen
    jibansen

    "Woman Walks Ahead" is a new American movie that premiered back in 2017 and runs for 100 minutes approximately. Director is 2-time Emmy nominee Susanna White and the script is by Oscar nominee Steven Knight, so a British co-production we have here. the star is Golden-Globe winning lead actress Jessica Chastain and she is joined by recent Oscar winner Sam Rockwell. The poster and (not so great) title make it clear already that this is a film about Indians with modern western elements, maybe a female-themed equivalent to Christian Bale's most recently released film. But back to this one here. Sadly, I was very unimpressed. Eventually, it comes down to nothing but another unrefined film on the subject that depicts Whites as bad guys and Indians as suffering (good) guys while offering almost no depth whatsoever. In terms of Chastain and the story and material, you could thing it is one of these films that are symbolic for quality roles for females in movies these, days, but I found it to be the exact opposite. There is nothing to her character that makes an impact beyond stereotypes and generic character writing unfortunately. Her looks make the impact, maybe the clothes too, but the character never does and moves way further behind the longer the film goes to a degree where she becomes almost insignificant eventually and the occasional scene of discrimination against her for how she is bonding with Sitting Bull is pretty ridiculous. The worst, however, is the rushed-in plot about her being scared of horses that is more on the side of making fun about people who actually do with how easy she approaches the horses later on in a very clumsy attempt to show her (mental) strength. Also the parts wheer we have virtually everybody drooling over her are not to helpful in terms of strong female characters. As for Sitting Bull, there isn't too much positive I can say either. Again, it's the looks that are working well, but that is it pretty much. The seemingly important scenes a