At first I found myself transfixed on the struggles of the people trying to stay alive on their journey through the desert of Oregon, a not so inviting place. Then as the movie went forward I kept trying to understand how a group of people would be naive enough to take an unknown short cut suggested by their guide, yet have the strength to stand up to him during a tense stand off? The ending left me hanging, wondering if their search for water was just over the ridge, or the next. There were plenty of signs that they were being led to safety without their realizing it, frustration, the lack of food and water blinded them to fear an unknown fate, a fate that leaves you wondering what the real ending was
Review of Meek's Cutoff
