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Rebel Ridge’s Unexpectedly Non-Violent Ending, Explained By Jeremy Saulnier


Filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier on crafting Terry Richmond’s “mission of morality.”

Blue Ruin(2013), Green Room(2015), and Hold the Dark(2018) all stack up high body counts: Dwight Evans (Macon Blair) attacks the Cleland family to avenge his parents’ murder; the punk-rock band the Ain’t Rights fight through neo-Nazis to escape the compound where they’re being systematically killed; Alaskan natives Vernon Slone (Alexander Skarsgård) and Cheeon (Julian Black Antelope) murder cops to reclaim the body of Vernon’s son and to punish the local police force for not investigating the epidemic of missing indigenous children. In Green Room, the Ain’t Rights insist over and over that their captors call the police, who they assume will come to their aid; when it becomes clear that the neo-Nazis have already tricked the local cops into leaving, the band members decide to fight back. Like the Ain’t Rights, he appeals to the idea of good cops on the Shelby Springs force who might object to Burnne and Lann attacking Officer Marston (David Denman), who is revealed to be a whistleblower against the civil asset forfeiture conspiracy.

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