Mekko

MOVIE #1,258 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.29.23 I watched this one whilst hungover for the last time and it felt both appropriate content-wise as well as aesthetically for my state of mind (check back in one year from today, Day #366ish, or otherwise: I’ll be dead). It’s a micro-budget indie by the co-creator of Reservation Dogs (Mr. Not Taika Waititi) — a show I’ve been meaning to check out — featuring a mix of real and non-actors. Rod Rondeaux plays the titular Mekko, a man who has just been released from prison, and the film follows him around Tulsa, Oklahoma, as he interacts with the mostly all Native homeless population, and he is the grounding element which makes this work. It’s a “hang-out” movie in the sense that you are “hanging out” with these characters, but it’s no place anyone wants to be. (This is part of a trend I’ve noticed, call it the anti-hang-out movie™). I didn’t take a single note. I just kind of laid on the floor staring at my Kindle Fire. The lack of any and all sheen was perfect for this less than ideal viewing scenario.

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Mekko is a 2015 American drama film directed by Sterlin Harjo. Harjo's third feature film, it is a thriller set among a community of homeless Native Americans in Tulsa. It was released on June 12, 2015.