The western is my favorite genre, and contrary to many who praise the "great" classics (those of the fascist John Wayne and company), to me, understanding that they are products of their time, that cinema seems to me vomitous, stereotyped, and totally propagandist.
Because of course, the Indians were troglodytes all the time, and the white man the "civilized" one, and casually and in total convenience they always omitted the massacres and robberies they had perpetuated in their "conquest" of the west.
[Image](https://enterate24.com/se-estrena-la-pelicula-danza-con-lobos-1990/)
The 80's were the worst decade for the genre, the western was in decline, but the great Kevin Costner arrived, and with the help of Michael Blake they adapted his novel into a wonderful film.
A first time director, Costner makes the most of the almost four hours of footage to make a mix of epic cinema, adventure films, romance and westerns.
He fills the screen with fantastic landscapes, quite correct dialogue, much of it in the Dakota language, with unforgettable characters.
For works like this, for me, Costner is an icon of the genre, with much more merit than other stale old facistoids with their "classics".
Dances with Wolves is a hymn, praise or whatever you want to call it, to nature and the importance of animals (the horse, the wolf, the buffalo).
It is not a "pro-Indian" film or a film that wants to sell you ideology. They don't sell you the idea of the good native, they kill animals and even kill each other.
[Image](https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/el-rancho-de-danza-con-lobos-sera-subastado-2866?tesla=y&tesla=y)
It is a story of survival, of adventure, of a man who arrives in a world he did not know and realizes that he had been filled with lies, a world that makes him find his humanity and fall in love with that environment.
It is also a love story. And it is a film that fights against those stereotypes imposed on the western.
It is a film that revived a genre, that moved us and made us enjoy every minute of it. A gem.
