A retrospective by Forest Humphrey Trigger Warning: “Wind River” depicts and deals heavily with the subjects of sexual violence, self harm and drug abuse. 2017's “Wind River” forms a kind of thematic trilogy with writer/director Taylor Sheridan's previous two films “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water”. Sheridan has a knack for this kind of “modern western” and takes his work to dark places. If you've seen the aforementioned films you know you're in for a gritty and tense thriller that is not afraid to deal with heavy subject matter. On the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, hunter Cory (Jeremy Renner) discovers the body of a local young woman in the snow, miles from anywhere. When the tribal police investigate, they discover the woman had been raped, and contact the FBI. They send one rookie agent (Elizabeth Olsen) to assist in finding out what happened. The film's plot is as straightforward as they come, but everything else around it is what I believe