First Cow | Discussion & Review | Film Club
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2020
- Though she’s been making acclaimed films since the mid-90s, Kelly Reichardt isn’t quite the household name compared to some of her peers in indie filmmaking. Maybe that will change with her latest film, First Cow. Distributed by A24-itself a burgeoning household name-First Cow is a quiet story of two friends who want to make a living selling buttermilk biscuits. On today’s episode of Film Club, our critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss the simple joys of Reichardt’s latest.
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One of my favorite little details in this film was when all the male characters got up and left to go see the cow, and the camera remains on Lily Gladstone's character and the little native girl for a moment. We get this very short interaction between them, basically in the peripherals of the film.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” - old Buddhist saying foreshadowed by the river-bound container ship opening scene. King-Lu swims away from danger after Cookie saved him the first time. King-Lu swims away from danger the second time, only to return upstream to find Cookie. Similar to matured salmon finding their way back to their original freshwater nesting pond from the vast ocean, despite looming dangers along the creeks. Both salmon and Cookie camaraderie were guided by innate propensities shared by birds to nest or spiders to web (quoted in the film opening). On the opposite spectrum, collective human nature to selfishly take from nature (and from the indigenous natives) in the early 19th century, continued on for centuries with the aforementioned transport container that perhaps carried minerals extracted from the Earth. So in a sense, some intrinsic sins of mankind remain on the same river.
Beautiful interpretation! Im curious to know your thoughts on Cookies sequence with the Natives
Ory-Gone. Orrrrryyyyy Goooooooone.
you guys. stop it. It's Oregon. Or-uh-gun
I thought I was the only one screaming “OR-e-gun!”
Great review-but just so you know the way you pronounce Oregon hurts Oregon natives’ ears. The last syllable is pronounced like “gun” . The odd thing is you both start to pronounce it correctly halfway through.
The reviewers are in California, right? How can we butcher the pronunciation of California so that they learn to stop?
Everyone should see more Reichardt movies.
AV Club: maybe it'll be #1 at the box office next week.
Coronavirus: Hold my beer.
Hi, I enjoyed listening to both of your thoughts on "First Cow" Do you think there was any way Cookie and King-Lu could have approached Chief Factor with a mutual business proposal for profit? I know this would have been a completely different movie. Maybe I'm being naive. Thanks, Joe
Great episode! Can't wait to see this...
Would be cool if you had people on this show that have more than a Wikipedia article level knowledge of the subject matter
they were soooo close at the end to seeing the native american aspects of the film wow "you gotta just take it" damn
From a Canadian perspective, I find it a bit odd that you'd refer to Oregon in the 1820s as "Oregon territory". I understand some people called it Oregon country starting at an earlier time, but Oregon territory was not incorporated in 1848. My understanding is the area was more commonly known as "Columbia" in the 1820s. This video by a former Vancouver (BC) mayor gives some interesting historical context: th-cam.com/video/6LmATndCZVY/w-d-xo.html
this movie is FANTASTIC
Love Kelly, forever
1:00 😢
Such an evil laugh
Y'all please. It's not Or-EE-gone its "o-Reh-gun
Orie-gun
I watched it. I felt passionate enough to comment on youtube about it. There is SOMETHING compelling about it. But I hated it.
Film opens on an endless shot of a modern day freight liner plodding down a waterway. And I mean endless. Whatever metaphor I was supposed to absorb in the first 90 seconds of that shot was already lost by the time the next 90 seconds ended and then I felt like the duration of the shot itself was the "real" metaphor and then 90 seconds after that I just DGAF anymore, I just wanted it to stop. When the artiste mercifully decides to cut away from the ship, Alia Shawkat is digging up two skeletons with her bare hands. We dont know who, we dont know why. I dont think we ever really see her again.
From there it's a well acted heist film about stealing milk to make the most bomb funnel cakes in all of the land. Make a bunch of money off the cakes and start a new life in California. But I was honestly never sure if the movie took place in an historically accurate past, a fictionalized past or a post-apocalyptic future. It felt like The Postman at times lol. Which is actually kind of cool and okay with me. There's just something about how thin the plot is which tells me Im missing whatever the point of this movie was.
7.5/10....this is a solid film and the cinematography is amazing but compared to other Reichardt films, this falls towards the lower third.
why would in 1820 people want to go to san francisco? still owned by mexico and very under populated and would not take off until gold rush.
Aside from your mispronunciation of Oregon, the other thing that marks you guys as not being Oregonians is your misindentifying the roughskin newt in the beginning as a lizard
Way too slow, very frustrating, it lost me I'm afraid. Just not enough there.