Actors: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Meek's Cutoff is clearly a film dreamed up by a postmodern author - a film about pioneer life that's so 'lifelike' that it's ostensibly dull and plotless. In Thomas Pynchon's world, this film would be unimaginably popular for presenting a world that's totally unlike our own. However, while this movie is not a smashing success at the box office, it is successful at just about everything it sets out to do. It manages to evoke pioneer life (or at least, how I might imagine pioneer life) without being tedious or overexplanatory. I might just be inured to it - after sitting through The Man From London, this movie is a breeze.
A minor thing that bothered me is the need to, in the words of sports columnist Joe Posnanski, volumate. Volumating is the act of adjusting the volume up or down for a tv show or movie (usually a movie) because the volume level is so inconsistent. This film was one of the worst for it - I guess it just tells me that I have to see more films in the theater, where they're meant to be seen.
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