dances with wolves

Janiya 2022-04-20 09:01:19

It's understandable to see at the end recall some of the previous baffling episodes. At the very beginning, the protagonist John Dunbar rode into the territory of the Indians, but survived with the mentality of seeing death. Later, he told the leader that he was going to the frontier in his lifetime, and others thought he was crazy. I also understand why the woman was so afraid of him even though he was both white when he saved the white woman. He probably also understood the other party's fears and her affiliation with the Indian tribe, so he sent her back and didn't stay. And why did the people in the tribe first let her communicate with the white people, she said they take people away-although she was brutally taken away by the Indians when she was a child, and her parents were killed, but she probably experienced it long ago What happened to the protagonist later, including at least the time she was injured and lost her husband.

Thinking of the Indians spoken by Ling 370 were killed, invaded, assimilated by the Americans, and everything including their language was plundered. Forcing children to go to boarding school not to speak their own language would be severely punished and only speak English. As a result, children are reluctant to speak their mother tongue with their parents or even grandparents when they return home, partly because they are brainwashed into thinking that things are uncivilized and dishonorable. Hundreds of their languages ​​have disappeared, and only recently have they started talking about revitalize. There is also settler colonialism vs. extractive colonialism. The former is the assimilation of body, spirit, culture, etc. (as Ruian said, cultural cleansing, deprivation of identity, forced assimilation, and genocide), the latter is the plunder of territories and resources ( Finally, the so-called Indian reservations were forcibly relocated and encircled).

cruelty of history. Hope humans don't make the same mistakes again. But only hope.

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  • Aimee 2022-03-16 09:01:03

    Three brushes! A deep and atmospheric epic masterpiece, the last glory of the Western movie! The director integrates into history as a participant, examines and criticizes the heinous crimes committed by the invaders, and extols a sincere friendship across races; the vast grassland, the true temperament of the Sioux people, and the lone wolf shadow have been lingering for a long time. In my heart; no matter how simple the quality is, it can't resist the progress of history. The great civilization on horseback has since disappeared, and the butcher ruled the frontier!

  • Adrianna 2022-03-20 09:01:22

    If you like epic/war/western theme, please eat the 236min director's edited version. Passersby likes a fast-paced 181min with 1.2x speed.

Dances with Wolves quotes

  • John Dunbar: How come we haven't seen any buffalo?

    Timmons: Can't figure the stinking buffalo. Sometimes you don't see them for days, and sometimes they're out there as thick as curls on a whore.

    John Dunbar: What about Indians?

    Timmons: Indians? Goddamn Indians you'd just as soon not see, unless the bastards are dead. They're nothing but thieves and beggars.

  • John Dunbar: How did you get your name?

    Stands With a Fist: When I came to live on the prarie, I worked every day... very hard... there was a woman who didn't like me. She called me bad names... sometimes she beat me. One day she was calling me these bad names, her face in my face, and I hit her. I was not very big, but she fell down. She fell hard and didn't move. I stood over her with my fist and asked if any other woman wanted to call me bad names... No one bothered me after that day.

    John Dunbar: [smiles] I wouldn't think so. Show me... where you hit her.

    [Stands With a Fist balls her fist and touches John at the base of the chin. John feigns being knocked unconscious as Stands With a Fist laughs]