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Thunderheart (1992)

Directed By: Michael Apted
Starring: John Trudell, Chief Ted Thin Elk, Fred Ward, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer

Rated R
1 hr 59 mins

Dramas

On DVD 09-29-1998


SYNOPSIS



Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) buried his Native American heritage with the body of his drunken father. Raised by his white mother and stepfather, he becomes a gung-ho federal agent who never questions the authority of the U.S. government. Then Levoi finds himself in a real-life version of "cowboys and Indians" when the FBI moves onto a South Dakota reservation to apprehend a fugitive. Once in the community, the agent uncovers a plot to frame American Indian activists. With the help of an Indian sheriff and shaman (Graham Greene), he learns to accept a long-denied part of himself and to fight for his people. Created after the success of DANCES WITH WOLVES and LAST OF THE MOHICANS, director Michael Apted's film takes the buddy-cop genre and uses it to explore the sordid politics of reservation life in the United States. The film was released just weeks after Apted's documentary INCIDENT AT OGLALA, which examines the unjust imprisonment of Indian activist Leonard Peltier. Together the two films form a powerful plea for recognition of the mistreatment of Native Americans.

REVIEW

There's much that's interesting about Thunderheart, Apted's take on the period between 1971 and 1978 when AIM (the American Indian Movement) found itself in a war with that subversive organization, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). Apted, the marvelous documentarist responsible for the 7 Up series, has also made a documentary about Leonard Peltier, the AIM leader unjustly convicted of murder, called Incident at Oglala and in the process has been caught up in a territorial scuffle with Oliver Stone who claimed ownership of Peltier and his story. There are elements of Peltier's story here as well as the Big Mountain issue in which Native American people are struggling with the American government over rights to the uranium on their land. Another member of AIM, John Trudell makes his film debut here playing a character in much the same fix as Peltier. Kilmer plays a Fed with Native American blood but no knowledge or experience of his heritage, who is sent to the reservation to appease the tribes disgusted with insensitive white federal agents and to apprehend Trudell. His partner is a tough, single-minded Fed played by Shepard. Kilmer's shaky credentials are a source of derision for most of the people on the reservation who call him the Washington redskin, but he's befriended by a reservation cop, Greene, a wry traditionalist on a motorcycle who figures Kilmer could do some good if he understood a little bit more about himself and his own history. The activists, here called ARM, are locked in a pitched battle with Fred Ward's army of goons, enforcers who, with the collusion of the Feds hold political power on the reservation by force. Apted manages to say a lot by cutting between the squalor of life on the reservation to the magnificence of the land around it. Unfortunately, when the characters speak for themselves, they are often forced to deliver lines that are unspeakable. There is an element of misty romanticism about Native Americans that Apted just doesn't manage to pull off. His yarn, however, is a good one.  


Codec: Xvid
Sise: 886 MB
Runtime: 01:59:18  
Resolution: 608x336 (1.81:1)
Bitrate: 921 kb/s
FPS: 23.97                                      
Qf: 0.188 bits/pixel
Audio: English. Nosub.
112 kb/s (56/ch, stereo) CBR




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