Clearcut

Clearcut

The violence has begun.

199198 min6.9 / 10

A dark, morally ambiguous thriller that uses kidnapping and violence to interrogate environmental destruction and Indigenous rage, grounded in spiritual and existential conflict.

A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.

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