While awareness to the horrific crimes against women; specifically indigenous women, are underreported and not addressed with enough resources- this movie painfully depicts women (specifically indigenous women) as individuals with low IQ or rather limited problem solving skills. The entire storyline is riddled with super dumb a@@ internal conversations and events.
1. The main character is on the phone -steps from her car at a gas station filling it up before a long stretch of road (300+). She is on the phone with her sister when gas is stolen by way of the pump being removed from her car and added to the car next to hers. She doesn't notice this!!!!! She doesn't have eyes on her car she is steps away from as it is being refueled! AND then she doesn't notice that her car is NOT full and pays $80 for the gas! She gets back in her car after paying $80+ and doesn't notice the tank! She looks at the speedometer the ENTIRE movie! How? HOW?
2. Why is she using a MAP! A paper map and reading it on the side of the icey/snow and her low IQ dog is just siting in the middle of the road in the path of a huge 18 wheeler. He just sits there?! No DOG with common canine sense is just going to sit there watching a truck coming at high speeds. Back to the paper map! This story takes place in modern times. Her car had a flat screen in it! She has a smart phone! But uses paper maps. What?!
3. 18 wheelers do not exceed 80 mph or at best on a downhill slope with wind past 100mph. Her sedan was going between 80 and 120mph. How in the laws of kinematics does the truck catch up with her repeatedly? And when she sees the truck allows it to catch up with and only speeds up once it's on her bump. I can't with this movie!
4. She approaches a cop with a knife she took from the dinner bc she forgot it was in her hand. While I understand the point being made in that scene; it was poorly executed!
Director, please be mindful of how you depict the intelligence and problem solving skills of individuals whose story you are trying to tell!!! Indigenous women and women are NOT airheads. And neither are their dogs!
