Magic Valley

Idaho town: waters invaded by a fish die-off; a cattle rancher, diverting a stream, has caused the death of thousands of farmed salmon.

A boy evidently very upset must have committed something particularly serious.

Two children play at burying a corpse found in the fields.

A group of not just teenage boys play choking attempt to pass the time; a video is shot about making fish sticks for scouts by pulling dead salmon onto an overturned lawnmower and watching them disintegrate.

A young mother desperately searches for her missing daughter while the local sheriff uses the service car for personal purposes and to detect the speed limit...

Discovery of the dead body, finding the truth.

Last scene: the two children catch the fish with a net, put it on a tree trunk and place a fuse in its mouth, light it, the fish explodes.

When you make a mistake and you don't know you're making it, are you guilty?

The question of a very dry, surgically edited film, with an eye that microscopically studies the secrets of the American province, as if it were a subtle and bloody game of unraveling reality.

An absolute metaphor for our times: boredom, affairs, selfishness, cruelties, existential illiteracies, the death of others.

Very lucid and sharp, excellent representation, impeccable style.

Not to be missed.