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pelikula: The Prairie Fire That Wanders About by Don Jaucian Meek’s Cutoff (2011) D: Kelly Reichardt S: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Paul Dano, Will Patton The wilderness can be a comforting place, its eerie silence presenting a strange calm that promises a future of beginnings. Rolling winds gather clouds, taking away the wanderers out into an open field where the horizon is the only rope that guides. But its vast emptiness has borne cautionary tales from the ancient times where inhuman entities and deities have made it a battle ground for men, an arena where endurance, faith and beliefs are challenged, something that even the Son of God himself has suffered.  James Tissot’s ‘Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness’ Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness has stood as proof of his incorruptibility. Faced with hunger, powerlessness, and other demonic ministrations, Jesus withstood the Devil’s attempt to break his spirit and hand himself over into worldly desires. Often earmarked as a show of his divinity and high wisdom, the varying accounts of this temptation makes for an interesting standpoint between the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible, something that Kelly Richardt’s Meek’s Cutoff searingly handles with such grace and subtlety. By all means, Meek’s Cutoff can stand for any representation of a challenged leadership. Here is a ragtag bunch of men and women, parched, desperately scouring the Oregon desert for any sign of the end of their ordeal. As their supposedly two-day trek stretches into a harrowing journey, tension mounts as the water and supplies dwindle. The settlers suspect that their guide, Stephen Meek, isn’t exactly what he is supposed to be. Branded as the devil, the men initially decide to hang him if they still find themselves lost after a few days. But when they catch a Native American along their route, roles become reversed and their fate becomes more uncertain as ever. The Indian may be their only hope of at least getting water. But Meek’s assumptions of the Native American’s true nature (who doesn’t speak a bit of English) plants a deadly seed in the minds of most of the settlers. Talk of bloodshed and skin-ripping only instills more fear and paranoia to the group, but Emily (Michelle Williams) believes that the Indian doesn’t mean any harm. She feeds him with whatever they may spare and attempts to decode his gestures and mumbling, which the others interpret as a form of signal for the rest of his tribe to come and attack them. As a character reads verses from the Old Testament in various points of the film, Meek’s Cutoff can also be interpreted as a lost chapter of the Fall of Man. But this connection is never explicitly dealt. Meek is a figurehead of any religion, a prophet at least, luring believers into the unknown only to watch them crumble as they encounter more tribulations along the way. Reichardt fleshes off Meek as a shady character whose intentions remain questionable until the very end. He is as clueless and tired as anyone else, but his position doesn’t afford him to be crippled like the rest of them. Meek’s Cutoff doesn’t offer any resolutions or clear-cut definitions. Everything seems as elusive as the promised land that they have been pursuing. But its this vagueness that propels the film as it goes along in a plot furthered by nothingness. A questionable messiah is better than an absent one. Because after all, it’s this persistence of being that gives meaning to our lives, no matter how pointless it may seem. 
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