One of the other commentators mentioned CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, and if that's what Kelly Reichardt was doing here, re-framing fictionalized Earth Firsters! as modern day Raskolnikovs, well, it's certainly more interesting -- comparing 21st century radical ecologists with 19th century radical utilitarians -- than the actual movie, which halfway through becomes improbably Hitchcockian. If this is the best American indie cinema can muster, oh what an embarrassment it is.