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Set on and around the poorest place in the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Rez Bomb is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love but get themselves into trouble with a brutal money lender and its against the clock for them to bail themselves out. From award winning director Steven Lewis Simpson the film stars Tamara Feldman (Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Hatchet, The Echelon Conspiracy) Trent Ford (West Wing, How To Deal, Gosford Park, September Dawn), Russell Means (Last of the Mohicans, Natural Born Killers, Pathfinder), Chris Robinson (General Hospital), Arlette Loud Hawk, Tokala Clifford (Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Skins, Into the West), Moses Brings Plenty (Custer's Last Stand)
This is the Special Edition and includes over three hours worth of original extra features:
Directors commentary
extra documentaries
Russell Means interview 45mins
Snapshot: A day in the life of Russell Means
At home with Arlette Loud Hawk
Director Steven Lewis Simpson at Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge locations tour
Rushville locations tour
Sheridan Livestock Market
Sheridan County Players
Ranch Life
Trailer
Nine minute opening of Scottish version
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rez Bomb is a great independent film worthy of widespread attention. Billed as a Romeo and Juliet, it's actually about two youths on a journey not to find but to re-find each other in a world that has lost love and its soul. It's a kind of modern Odyssey that looks at the voyage from both the man and the woman's point of view. This and the sense of a broken world also breaks time in some ways and so the scenes do not follow a strict chronology. Some may initially find this confusing, though they are helped by subtle shifts in colour that cue you into which stage of the story you are watching.
It's not a reservation film or an Indian film, though people with an interest in either won't be disappointed. The original (and significantly inferior) screenplay was in fact set in the tenements of Glasgow, so even at the outset this film which has been a decade in the making was interested in the lost and dispossessed. But the theme of genocide and loss which could equally have been explored in the Scots version surfaces subtly yet with greater vigour here with the Lakotah, partly because of the physical isolation of the reservation and partly because race constantly seems to inspire greater crass prejudice than class alone, not to mention the fact that - against all odds - the Lakotah spirit has survived. If that makes it sound as if the film will be preachy, don't worry it: isn't. It has an altogether wider and much more deeply human vision for that.
The performances are consistently excellent from professional and amateur members of the cast alike, making for compelling viewing throughout.
Highly recommended.
This DVD is outstanding value for money, with same great documentary footage and interviews of the high plains folk, both red and white, and how their life is changing. In addition there's a great interview with American Indian Movement activist and Republic of Lakotah spokesperson Russell Means, who also apears in the film. For those interested in the Lakotah, the DVD is worth it for this alone.
If you've read this far, just get it!
It's not a reservation film or an Indian film, though people with an interest in either won't be disappointed. The original (and significantly inferior) screenplay was in fact set in the tenements of Glasgow, so even at the outset this film which has been a decade in the making was interested in the lost and dispossessed. But the theme of genocide and loss which could equally have been explored in the Scots version surfaces subtly yet with greater vigour here with the Lakotah, partly because of the physical isolation of the reservation and partly because race constantly seems to inspire greater crass prejudice than class alone, not to mention the fact that - against all odds - the Lakotah spirit has survived. If that makes it sound as if the film will be preachy, don't worry it: isn't. It has an altogether wider and much more deeply human vision for that.
The performances are consistently excellent from professional and amateur members of the cast alike, making for compelling viewing throughout.
Highly recommended.
This DVD is outstanding value for money, with same great documentary footage and interviews of the high plains folk, both red and white, and how their life is changing. In addition there's a great interview with American Indian Movement activist and Republic of Lakotah spokesperson Russell Means, who also apears in the film. For those interested in the Lakotah, the DVD is worth it for this alone.
If you've read this far, just get it!
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I just finished watching my brand new copy of Rez Bomb this evening and I was NOT disappointed. Gritty is a great way to describe the film but, realistic is even better. Rez Bomb provides you with first person, narrative views of 'the hustle', its pitfalls and its resultant dangers.
Harmony, one of the main characters is in whole lot of trouble. She and her boyfriend owe a sizable amount of money to a dirty ol' money peddler named Jaws. Jaws gets his kicks from terrorizing the local people of Pine Ridge Reservation. He has no fear of lawful retribution because the FBI won't mobilize to enforce the law on 'Indian' land for a dead or beaten or raped Native man, woman or child--that would cost the U.S. government too much money. As a consequence, Jaws and his cronies have de-facto free reign on the rez.
Harmony and her white boyfriend Scott (played by Tamara Feldman and Trent Ford) have a plan to get them 'set up' and to get Harmony off the rez but,there is some trouble along the way. You root for Harmony and Scott throughout the entire film but, you especially root for Harmony. You respect her nerve, her tenacity, her cleverness and wit; you love her smile, her liveliness--her spirit. You want her to win and overcome and it is her character and the final outcomes that keeps you glued to the screen.
The film also accurately portrays the racial disharmony in U.S. society and the oppressor's idealism that they are saving the rest of us; we are lazy, disrespectful and lost savages that need them or we will be lost forever. In addition you see the sense of entitlement and superiority that the oppressor has in regards to the environment and our lives.
On board for this gritty and realistic thrill ride is the veteran talents of Russell Means, and the most handsome and very likable talents of Moses Brings Plenty and Tokala Clifford. Russell plays Dodds who gets bilked for some cash in the first chapter of the film setting the tone for the dangers to come. Tokala Clifford plays Chilik (looking wonderfully Rez Boy Fresh as Harmony's brother) and Moses Brings Plenty plays Johnny a drug dealer who is Scott's friend and ally.
This is a great film to own whether you like blockbusters or indies and can easily hold its own against other blockbusters films such as Snatch and The Grifters. The story line hooks you and the actors do the rest. It is a solid film and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Harmony, one of the main characters is in whole lot of trouble. She and her boyfriend owe a sizable amount of money to a dirty ol' money peddler named Jaws. Jaws gets his kicks from terrorizing the local people of Pine Ridge Reservation. He has no fear of lawful retribution because the FBI won't mobilize to enforce the law on 'Indian' land for a dead or beaten or raped Native man, woman or child--that would cost the U.S. government too much money. As a consequence, Jaws and his cronies have de-facto free reign on the rez.
Harmony and her white boyfriend Scott (played by Tamara Feldman and Trent Ford) have a plan to get them 'set up' and to get Harmony off the rez but,there is some trouble along the way. You root for Harmony and Scott throughout the entire film but, you especially root for Harmony. You respect her nerve, her tenacity, her cleverness and wit; you love her smile, her liveliness--her spirit. You want her to win and overcome and it is her character and the final outcomes that keeps you glued to the screen.
The film also accurately portrays the racial disharmony in U.S. society and the oppressor's idealism that they are saving the rest of us; we are lazy, disrespectful and lost savages that need them or we will be lost forever. In addition you see the sense of entitlement and superiority that the oppressor has in regards to the environment and our lives.
On board for this gritty and realistic thrill ride is the veteran talents of Russell Means, and the most handsome and very likable talents of Moses Brings Plenty and Tokala Clifford. Russell plays Dodds who gets bilked for some cash in the first chapter of the film setting the tone for the dangers to come. Tokala Clifford plays Chilik (looking wonderfully Rez Boy Fresh as Harmony's brother) and Moses Brings Plenty plays Johnny a drug dealer who is Scott's friend and ally.
This is a great film to own whether you like blockbusters or indies and can easily hold its own against other blockbusters films such as Snatch and The Grifters. The story line hooks you and the actors do the rest. It is a solid film and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a magnificent film, as others have already said before me. Beautiful and extravagant photography,
wonderful acting throughout and the story holds you in its grip for quite a while.
This Special Edition is highly recommended for other reasons too: the commentary of the director, the location
features and the interview with AIM's activist Russell Means which, in reality is an enlightening monologue of
almost classical dimension - he is a most worthy Ambassador of the Lakotah!
Interesting also the 9 minutes opening of "Pulse", the originally planned Scottish version. Not even Henry Ian Cusick,
being the first-class actor he is, could have made the story work well in Scotland (it is nice to have included this
short appearance of his on the DVD, though!) How right the director was to transfer the story to Pine Ridge - this
place has become a major asset to the film, almost like an acting element itself.
This film should have the widespread attention and the worldwide success it deserves as a piece of art. I hope it will!
I sadly remember other films, like "Skins" (2002) by Chris Eyre, which would have deserved more attention and went
almost unnoticed.
I'll keep spreading the news!
wonderful acting throughout and the story holds you in its grip for quite a while.
This Special Edition is highly recommended for other reasons too: the commentary of the director, the location
features and the interview with AIM's activist Russell Means which, in reality is an enlightening monologue of
almost classical dimension - he is a most worthy Ambassador of the Lakotah!
Interesting also the 9 minutes opening of "Pulse", the originally planned Scottish version. Not even Henry Ian Cusick,
being the first-class actor he is, could have made the story work well in Scotland (it is nice to have included this
short appearance of his on the DVD, though!) How right the director was to transfer the story to Pine Ridge - this
place has become a major asset to the film, almost like an acting element itself.
This film should have the widespread attention and the worldwide success it deserves as a piece of art. I hope it will!
I sadly remember other films, like "Skins" (2002) by Chris Eyre, which would have deserved more attention and went
almost unnoticed.
I'll keep spreading the news!
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Rez Bomb
The movie is a love story about a native woman and a white man trying to over come the poverty on America's poorest reservation while also trying to overcome the bad decisions that... Read more
Published 7 months ago by MNishi
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but this film really sucks. Not the fault of the crew, but the storyline is weak and shows very little understanding of any real issues or problems on the rez (or any... Read more
but this film really sucks. Not the fault of the crew, but the storyline is weak and shows very little understanding of any real issues or problems on the rez (or any... Read more
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