A little bit of ritual smoke, no fire
By Etienne Benson. July 24, 2002
"The film starts with pans across desolate Navajo country, desert and butte stretching far as the eye can see; then it fades to a close-up of an infant, [Ben] Yahzee's, held up to the sky with a flowing American flag in the background. If metaphors were martial arts, this would be a blow to the head with a blunt weapon ... "