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‘Missing From Fire Trail Road’ Review: A Heart-wrenching Doc About Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Sabrina Van Tassel focuses on the disappearance of a young Native American woman in Washington State to illuminate ongoing national tragedies.
The plague of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, long ignored and underappreciated throughout North America, has become more widely acknowledged in recent years, thanks to consciousness-raising depictions in everything from episodic television to feature films to award-winning documentaries. Please don’t misunderstand: Documentarian Sabrina Van Tassel(“The State of Texas vs. Melissa”) does not dwell needlessly on photos of bloody violence, nor glimpses of human remains, to open our eyes and wrench our hearts. Instead, by focusing almost entirely on a single disappearance in Washington State, and speaking with distraught friends and family members about not only the specifics of this case but its similarities to countless other tragedies, she slowly, incrementally, makes us experience the incessant sorrow and share the simmering rage of a people too long denied at least some sense of closure regarding their missing loved ones.
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