Hey, I'm not the only one who hates Dances With Wolves for that reason!
I have little desire to watch most horse films, but you're right about the inanity of these revisionist colonial films. They tend not to reflect real native culture so much as white interpretations of the culture, with a healthy dose of guilt. Worse, they're rarely relevant to current events--it happened so long ago that it's whitewashing their modern plights with dredged up pseudo-history.
In conclusion, I will probably also have nightmares about the microbes.
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Date: 2007-03-16 12:00 pm (UTC)I have little desire to watch most horse films, but you're right about the inanity of these revisionist colonial films. They tend not to reflect real native culture so much as white interpretations of the culture, with a healthy dose of guilt. Worse, they're rarely relevant to current events--it happened so long ago that it's whitewashing their modern plights with dredged up pseudo-history.
In conclusion, I will probably also have nightmares about the microbes.