Review of Dances with Wolves (1990) by Clem666 — 13 Apr 2021

A beautiful attempt to create a parallel story of the colonization of North America. Even if the storyline is quite predictable and similar to many Disney childish stories it remains interesting to witness the way things are arranged. 'Dances With Wolves' is a really long movie and this quality allows it to tackle many issues and craft deep and intricated characters. There are some fight scenes but it never falls in obnoxious violence. It is marvelous to see a movie like this that fully takes its time to show facial emotions, environment and animals. It does it in a such way that we actually can feel the loneliness of the main character, the amazement of the girl finding back her own roots or the doubt of a worried chief.

However if you manage to see American Indians differently as the plot moves forward you will quickly realize that White American settlers are almost all truly one-dimensional. You will probably also land on the conclusion that the lenght of the movie makes its pace inequal and unbalanced. The ending (no spoil) feels pretty rushed after all the time the movie demanded to set itself. I can totally understand why this movie is a classic for so many people but today we tend to feel all these years between its creation and us.