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She was the sort of unruly, politicized woman that traditional, male-driven Western films have paid little mind.
White/Knight make Weldon (Jessica Chastain) a widow with no son and no evident affiliation with the NIDA.
In any case, tragedy beckons.
The Ghost Dance of 1890 would end at Wounded Knee.
(That, of course, will change now, even if the film flops.)
Its that what it does present is so blandly tasteful.
The film ratchets down that messiness.
That man, meanwhile, conforms too well to the standard martyr template.
Hes a little dull.
The most interesting characters are the white people, whose racism is flecked with shades of gray.
(He has a Native American wife, who translates his appalling edicts to her people.)
Thats the moment whenWoman Walks Aheadshould get really good but turns, instead, into a weeper.
Is Chastain getting less interesting?
As an artist, shes in danger of being Woman Behind the Curve.
