Movie

Dance Me Outside

1995 · 84 min

A poignant and occasionally funny look at life on a reservation, balancing warmth with a powerful sense of injustice.

Tagline: After the party's over, real life kicks into gear.
Overview: Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, warm and satirical. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Justice, race, grief, coming-of-age
Content: Strong violence and language. Mild gore and sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: justice
race
grief
coming-of-age
isolation
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild