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Movie Reviews of Skins
Movie Review: Touching story
Summary: 5 Stars
If you loved 'Smoke Signals', you'll love this touching story as well. Two brothers have their own separate, yet similar, struggles as they cope with the poverty and loss of hope their people has had to endure for years on the Pine Ridge Reservation (actually filmed on the Reservation). One brother sinks into a bottle of booze while brother Rudy, a police officer who becomes more and more frustrated, begins to try to solve his people's problems on his own. I loved the flashbacks of Native American photos and details of spirit and myth, as well as the touches of humor in the face of despair. A very touching tale that really opens ones eyes to the struggles of Native Americans.
Chrissy K. McVay
Author of 'Souls of the North Wind'
Movie Review: should make you laugh and cry
Summary: 5 Stars
Tremendous movie;too bad most people will never see it.This movie portrays life as it really is for many natives on the reservation-not life at all but an existence.This movie is about as accurate as I've seen portraying the reality of the problems of Native Americans.The portrayal of drunks pathetically hanging in front of the liquor store I've seen in reality in Utah and Wyoming.This is a must see movie.If you think you're doing badly,this is a solid reminder that some people live a lifetime worse than most people's worst days.They are a proud people that aren't looking for your sympathy-but they'd appreciate awareness.Movie Review: Highly entertaining, emotionally powerful, deeply spiritual
Summary: 5 Stars
Eric Schweig, in one of his best roles since "Last of the Mohicans" plays dedicated cop and shadow-vigilante Rudy, while trying to holding his family together, including his alcoholic brother Mogie (Graham Greene in a critically underrated performance). Filmed entirely on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, viewers get a sense of the deep bindings of family in Lakota culture along with the deplorable living conditions perpetrated by decades of broken promises and abuse from the American government. Highly recommend, and prepare to be moved.Movie Review: Incredibly satisfying film
Summary: 5 Stars
Probably Eric Schweig's best. Of course Graham Greene (in his Madonna shirt) is great too. Not really the 'dark' tale that the reviewers/critics were calling it--maybe it would seem more depressing to people who were previously unaware of life on the Pine Ridge rez and thus were shocked or something? Not sure. But I thought there was so much humor in it--plenty of laughs. And the story is meaningful, the script is tight, direction spot-on. This is a great example of a Native-written Native-made film.Movie Review: Skins
Summary: 5 Stars
Chris Eyre's deeply affecting "Skins," adapted from a novel by Adrian C. Louis, is a small but potent film about the complex ties that bind families, and an unblinking look at the dire conditions of reservation life. Among a solid cast, actor Graham Greene gives a towering performance as Mogie, a hard-luck case in the advanced stages of alcoholism. Even though his character is perpetually cranky, unkempt and irresponsible, Greene still manages to win our sympathy and compassion--no small feat.