Movie Time: Dances with Wolves

Kevin Costner’s 1990 epic Dances with Wolves is a Masterpiece of American cinematography. The movie chronicles the time spent by cavalryman Lt. Dunbar on the frontier of the american west. Lt. Dunbar was assigned to an abandoned outpost to assess threat and re-establish a foothold with the U.S. military in the area.

While at his outpost, Dunbar encounters what for a long while would be his only friend,a wolf he names Two Socks, due to his markings. Dunbar and the wolf get to know each other, while Dunbar gets accustomed to his life as a lone cavalryman,on the frontier. It is around this time that the two are discovered by a band of men from the local tribe of Sioux. He will learn to trust the Sioux, and that everything that he’s been told about them as a people has been a lie. Dunbar begins a life with the Sioux, and discovers that a white woman lives among them and has been raised as one of them.  While he thinks that his life has found purpose and meaning, it will come to tribulation once his regiment finds where he’s living and how he’s been doing it.

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