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Story summary
- Clint Bentley's film adaptation of Train Dreams is now streaming on Netflix worldwide.
- Denis Johnson, American author, wrote the 2002 novella Train Dreams.
- Critics say the film preserves some ambiguity but smooths over harsher critiques of colonialism present in Johnson's work.
- Both the novella and film evoke climate grief and the unsettled nature of the American frontier.
