A romantic western about Indians. It is amazing that such a film was made. It is even more surprising that he has become so successful. "Dancing..." continues and reinterprets classical romanticism on the material of the wild west. In Romanticism, civilization marks the decline of the true essence of man. Civilization is fundamentally immoral and disastrous. But true morality, true culture, true purity of the soul and correct perception of the world remained only among savages. This idea of the romantics, of course, reflected dissatisfaction with modern culture. The same approach with scope represents this film.
It’s a movie about how a white man became an Indian because he found everything in life. The film compares and contrasts white civilization and Indian civilization. At least take the war. Whites fight senselessly and doomedly. The Indians are different. They even have a war that is real and right. Or hunting. Both whites and Indians kill bison. But white people do it like freaks. But the Indians are poetic and sublime.
Amazingly, in the 90s in Hollywood in epic showed Indians as good, and whites as degenerates. And with the image of white disgusting characters in the film too much. The indigenous people of the continent in the film in the foreground. This is no longer the usual image of an Indian on the third plane, who, thanks to his talents, can fit into the society of the immigrant race. Now the Indians are in the spotlight. And this film is not just appreciated by critics. White audiences liked it more than classic westerns about tough guys shooting at each other.
In the picture there are many really beautiful frames of nature, which are designed to emphasize the harmony of the Indian way of life. Unfortunately, the film is too long. He's too melancholy and melodramatic. It is clear that this is done purposefully to convey the mood. But I wasn't hooked. Maybe it's because I don't get to admire hunter-gatherer culture. How sublimely they love, hunt, fight and philosophize. I do not believe in the romantic ideal of sublime violence. And the sublime wisdom of the savage, too.
