The wheels of history are rolling forward, never waiting for anyone. If you do not change, someone will always force you to change.
The whole play revolves around a "wheel", which shuttles in every corner. The white line male protagonist Jacob comes from the WHEELER family and has been a wheelmaker for generations. And the great spirit sacrificial ceremony performed by the "Buffalo Love" of the Lakota Indians, from the roaring bear, foresees the future where the wheels will crush the tribe. The amulets and even the divination array he made are all in the shape of wheels.
On the way to the west, the protagonist rescues the next Lakota woman who is about to become a slave and becomes married. The children they gave birth, quoting Jacob’s admonition to them, "Remember that you are half Virginians and half Lakotas. Be proud of these two bloodlines in you." And his After the children have grown up, they have traveled through the history of the United States in their own way, playing corresponding roles in the wheels of history.
The disputes between the whites and the Indians, the colonists and the aboriginals, are evident in the blood of these two families.
The director is the famous Stephen Spielberg. It is because of him that I watched this show. As a person who didn’t know much about Indian culture at the beginning, at the end of 6 episodes, I watched the love of the old bison one by one. When cutting off the hair of the tribe in the wild corpse and performing the soothing ritual, they choked up unexpectedly.
The whole drama is a large part of the depiction of the American pioneers' desire for money and wealth at that time. The immigrants came to the west with the whistle of the train. Some people lost themselves in the gold rush, and eventually fell under the drive of desire. Some people live steadily, but in the end they are no match for the war. They are dead in the Civil War, or the conflict between the Indians and the white people. There is even interspersed with the story of Huagong helping the Pacific Railway Company to open mountains and ridges, but all this is just a small part of the wheel of history.
Due to language barriers and the tyranny of white colonists, the massacre of Indians runs through the entire play. The glorious ethnic group that once chased the bison under the blazing sun is mostly turned into white bones at the end of the film. What future generations can do, such as "We live and we have hope" said "We live and we have hope." Remember these stories. When you tell your story with future generations, you are like your elders, And your ancestors are communicating."
"The history that a person knows is only a small part of his own. Don't forget that we are on the same wheel of history. As long as a small part is damaged, the whole wheel is incomplete."-Jacob Wheeler
Now, this story belongs to you.
The show’s respect for history and reflection on crimes show a responsible responsibility. This rigorous attitude is awesome.
This is not a history of heroes. There are no heroes in this drama. Some are dead men who fight for their beliefs regardless of race, age, or gender. An epic.
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