The separation and isolation build in the movie and come to a sharp point before pivoting in a Native American ceremony with Wolf (Tatanka Means) and his father Willie Ortiz (Russell Means, Tatanka's real-life father). The aloneness an isolation of death and loss are hauntingly personified in these two scenes. Shortly thereafter Davey is alone, cradled by a New Mexico canyon, and calls out for her now dead father. Close to the beginning of the movie we are presented with a character's wish to rise up in a hot air balloon and never come down. The film holds a few masterful moments that telegraph to our hearts and minds the experience of grief. What is rendered on the screen is a spare yet moving meditation on the solitude of grief and the redemptive power of connection. Despite the Boston International Film Festival playing an unfinished version of the film that lacked surround sound and the rich deep and moody color the directer intended, the movie was lushly filmed and used the landscape surrounding Los Almos New Mexico as a silent-yet-powerful character in the film. Willia Holland stars as Davey and Tatanka Means stars as Wolf, the young man who who helps Davey find strength from loss. Her son, Lawrence Blume wrote the screen play and directed the film. Tiger Eyes, a young adult book written by Judy Blume in 1981 and the first of her movies to be brought to the big screen, is about a young girl trying to cope with the murder of her father.
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