REVIEW: Riley Keough's 'War Pony' follows two young Native men as they try to navigate a world of drugs, violence, and hard choices.
Yet when you see the movie, there’s no sense that it’s the work of dilettantes or cultural tourists. There’s a lived experience pulsing at the center of this slice-of-life tale, which helps guide it over some of the more generic elements and weaker patches, especially when things threaten to detour directly into poverty-porn and/or Amerindie miserablism territory.
The tragic elements of life on this patch of land, in this part of the country, are given their due. So are the funny bits as well, even if its strain of stoner-comedy feels muted enough to be near-invisible. There’s also a climactic bit set to Redbone’s heavy-in-recent-rotation “Come and Get Your Love” that feels like too broad a swing, until you suddenly realize what longstanding holiday is being roasted and how a reversal of fortune can be a karmic bitch in more ways than one.
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