Review Hold the Dark (2018)

[Katie-Ellen]

Title: Hold the Dark (2018)

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Adventure, Drama

Director: Jeremy Saulnier

Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Julian Black Antelope, Bobbi Jaye, Jonathan Whitesell, Beckam Crawford, Peter McRobbie, Tantoo Cardinal, Macon Blair, Savonna Spracklin, Lonni Olson, Eric Keenleyside, Michael Tayles, Brian Martell, Conor Boru, Gabriel Cross, Barb Mitchell, Vanessa Holmes, Maureen Thomas, Anabel Kutay, Emmanuel Imani, Makambe Simamba, Sean Hoy, Amanda Burke, Ryan Irving, Zandus Snow, Joseph Whitebird, Clarence Hoof, Savannah Bird, Karen Powderface, Issac Bird, Lorette Clow, Nicholas Asbury, Mark Beswick

Release: 2018-09-22

Runtime: 126

Plot: In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.



This is a strong, scary story; a tragedy as peculiar as believable in certain dispossessed communities when you think of Standing Rock etc. There is great loss and a very natural bitterness, Native American communities failed by the Law. I thought it was very well-realised and I cared and was scared for the ageing, increasingly exhausted hero who spares an alpha wolf and later receives mercy in return.

I was scared, even for one of the 'baddies'- even as he guns down the poor, rookie police boys

There is a grieving killer on the loose, and he is pitiless; both hero and anti-hero, he is a homecoming soldier, and this woman, his wife....what are they really? Are they just a pair of raging psychopaths? It's not that simple. This is a highly unusual love story to do with pacts and the breaking of pacts, alienation and loneliness, belonging, pack and non-pack, and Nature red in tooth and claw.

 

[Emurelda]

Watching now. Let's see how long I last.

 

[Quillwitch]

Ie read about the book and everyone says itś beautifully written and chilling.

 

[Emily]

Really enjoying these recommendations! How did you get on @Emurelda ??

 

[Emurelda]

Really enjoying these recommendations! How did you get on @Emurelda ??

Not very far! My son wanted to watch Wonder and I thought such a wholesome film that I couldn't believe it. Makes a change from watching him play fortnight.
I'll try to find some 'me' time to watch a film all by myself.

 

[Emily]

Makes a change from watching him play fortnight

 

[AgentPete]

Hello @Katie-Ellen,

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