Structural violence

And then the way that the different journeys and the narratives in the film are woven together to tell such a powerful story about like the struggle that Native women experience.

But like you said, Elena, without overly emphasizing the trauma, it was much more I think about like a commentary on the way in which MMIW is caused by structural violence, rather than about the trauma itself.

Yeah.

I mean, we don't need to see Tawi.

taking Roki away and then issuing this massive manhunt for her because she supposedly kidnapped Jax from this presumably upstanding white family of the grandparents.

And so the way that the film is written and all of these different characters, it shows you rather than tells you, I think, the jurisdictional maze that surrounds these issues.

And it interlaces, I think, MMIW with ICWA, with structural violence and structural racism, I think, so brilliantly through the different characters themselves.

And I really appreciated that about this film.

So the result is women get punished.

This is a form of structural violence.

It is a form of structural violence borne out of the patriarchal constructs that we live under.

This is the most basic way to understand, you know, the, the women's equality movements and, like, what people are demanding.

A lot of people don't understand it.