AAA Movie Review: Dances with Wolves (1990), Epic Western Film

The famous director Kevin Costner directed "Dances with Wolves" at the end of the 20th century. The film actors also include Mary McDonald, Graham Greene, etc. The film won many praises for its profound cultural awareness and retrospective challenge to history. The film won five awards including the best film, best director and best editing of the 63rd Academy Awards. Kevin Costner won the prestigious achievement of the 41st Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear Award for outstanding leadership. The film tells the story of the legendary hero Dunbar in the Civil War, who voluntarily stationed in the west after the war. Dunbar, who was kneeling in the majestic grasslands of the west, gradually began to enjoy this calm and lively life until the emergence of the Sioux. The brutal killing of the Indians by the US government and the pure and simple life of the Sioux people made Dunbar abandon the original concept and gradually established a deep friendship with the Sioux and jointly wrote a poetic western epic.

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When the Western-style film gradually declined, the film achieved brilliant success. It received all kinds of the awards that year and shocked the world. It not only awakens people's memories and concerns to the heroes of the West, but also adopts new perspectives. It reinvents their unique realities with the Indian tribes that are often overlooked and smashed in the old Western movies, and it is very exciting. After decades of silence in Western-style movies, Western movies have moved from one trough to another, which has changed the general pattern of Western-style movies, prompting more people to adopt a new perspective to examine culture, history, race and peace. These complex themes are used to achieve unprecedented transcendence. On the other hand, the dance part of the film shows the charm of Indian dance and is a positive expression of Indian culture. Dance is an indispensable element of the film, and it plays a key role in demonstrating that characters are attracted to and integrated into Indian culture. The Indian culture embodied in the dance is also very appealing to the audience's senses, which is very impressive.

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Secondly, from the movie title "Dances with Wolves", the film naturally needs to be closely related to the dance. The “dance” here refers not only to dance scenes, but also to Dunbar and the wolf, as well as to the nature and Sioux people. The director conveys the differences and integration between different cultures. It can be said that this movie is one of the fruitful results of multiculturalism, and it also pushes multiculturalism to a climax. It is worth mentioning that the film spread a new ecological concept from beginning to end. This thinking begins with anxiety about human existence. This a vision of the future of mankind, and grief of humanity. With deep thinking and keen insight, the director guides people to pursue the power and vision of harmony with nature.

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By showing the contradictions and conflicts between natural love and natural destruction, the film reflects the isolation, narrowness and self-centeredness of individualism in the development of the western United States, and re-examines the relationship between man and nature. The film promotes a new vigilant consensus. Natural death is the end of human civilization. Only in the symbiotic relationship with nature and society can individuals achieve true self-worth and far-reaching ideas. There is no doubt that "Dances with Wolves" is a magnificent movie. The grandeur here is not a visual spectacle created by pure high-tech, but a strong resonance and emotion brought by a film. Kevin Costner is very subtle about the unique perspectives and methods of outsiders, showing us everything about the Indians in the American West at that time. In their minds, American invaders have committed unforgivable sins, but it is the re-examination of these sins that makes society progress. This is also an advantage that cannot be ignored.

Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/581-dances-with-wolves?language=en-US
Critic: AAA