Meek's Cutoff
The Road to Civilisation is Not Always Civilised.
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A slow-burn neo-Western that uses the Oregon Trail's harsh landscape and moral ambiguities to interrogate settler colonialism, patriarchy, and the cost of westward expansion.
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
