![]() On Sunday I took my assigned seat with only a few others in the house, eagerly awaiting seeing my favorite Native actor and fellow Cherokee, Wes Studi, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a Native venue several years ago. I could only reflect on my satisfaction that there was such a great interest in the film from the non-Native public. I was told it would be showing again on Sunday afternoon, but that it was advisable to purchase tickets now, which I did. To my pleasant surprise, the ticket seller said there were only a couple of seats left in the front row, smack up against the screen. But on a cold rainy Saturday afternoon in mid-February, in a small suburb of Nashville, the movie was nearly sold out. Since the movie had been out for several weeks with little to no advertisement in Middle Tennessee where I live, I expected an auditorium with few other moviegoers. I must preface my remarks by my experience in first attempting, unsuccessfully, to see the film. ![]() The latest Indigenous big-screen movie Hostiles, with famed stars Wes Studi (Cherokee) and Christian Bale, is evoking a lot of divergent views ranging from very positive to negative but, filled with pluses and minuses as are most movies are, it has more redemptive qualities than not.
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