与狼共舞

这部片子.是哪年看的.我已经忘记了.
太久之前的记忆了.

但这部片子对我来说意义非凡.

以至于我第一个网名就是片名。
然后一用就是3年.后来这个片名越来越泛滥之后.
我也被认定成了一个庸俗的人.
但是否庸俗.别人的想法永远与我无关.


这部片子我看了大概7,8遍吧.
比<重庆森林>看的次数还多.


其中的原因就不说了.

其实大多数时候.我觉得看电影。也是只可意会不可言传的一件事.

只要是好片，看完之后总有些郁结在心头，高中语文老师说，所谓的悲剧，就是把美好的东西在你眼前撕碎，这次又是感同身受。

当现代文明的枪炮驱赶了古老的印第安文明，可悲的究竟是谁？
邓巴是幸运的。作为军人的他，毫无激情可言，只不过是战争机器的一枚被遗忘的棋子。从某种意义上说是印第安人给了他第二次生命，使他由一个恪尽职守的军人升华成了深晓大是大非的英雄，他的生命就是一座桥梁，连接肮脏的工业文明和淳朴的印第安文明，当他从哨所走向部落时，身后的桥梁也随即倒塌。世界上仅有的知晓两种文明的人做出了价值选择，在开启了新生活的同对丑陋的工业文明做了毫不留情的否定。印第安人如同那匹孤独的狼，外表凶恶其实内心本善，其凶恶也仅仅是为了保障自己的生存。如同邓巴所说，印第安人的战斗仅仅是为了储备粮而已，哪里有什么政治，纯粹地美好。
但美好的东西往往是脆弱的。邓巴深知他所爱的苏族人必然灭亡，自我保护的本能让他最开始情感上不愿意加入这个即将灭亡的民族，但当完美和谐的自然被原本同族的白人用废弃的酒瓶和破败的茅屋玷污时，邓巴已经在心底对自己所谓的职责产生了怀疑，对白人产生了厌恶，于是他对踢鸟说白人会无穷无尽，这个时候，他已经彻底是一个苏族战士。更加重要的是，明知道苏族人会灭亡，枪兴许一次打不中狼，或许狼也可以一次次躲过子弹，甚至自己可以打到一个开枪的混蛋，但是子弹是无限的，一切努力都是徒劳，此时仍然坚定不移地不离不弃，邓巴已经升华为一个伟大的英雄，悲怆而壮烈。他不是整个白人世界，邓巴可以理解狼的善良，其他的人能么？整个世界都目不识丁拿日记擦屁股时，所谓的背叛和离开就是是崇高的选择。

人类已经自以为是地毁掉了太多东西，回头一看没有路，于是更加坚定地笑着破坏下去，美其名曰一不做二不休……

看了《与狼共舞》之后不知道是什么滋味，想哭哭不出来，大概这就是所谓的复杂吧。

　　电影里有许多东西是美好的。电影的第一部分便向我们证明了人与人之间、人与动物之间、人与自然之间要做到“融合”，并非十分艰难的事情。

　　想到曾经谈到某种特异功能：只要心里想着什么，对方便知道了。主持人随后解释：这样的能力在人类还不会用语言交流的时候便存在了，并且这是非常重要的一种交流的能力。但是这种能力在出现了语言之后便消失了。突然之间觉得异常感动。《与狼共舞》所说的融合，就是这样的融合。人与人之间语言不通，但是他们的心灵相通。人与动物，人与自然之间亦是如此。这实在是一派美好的景象。

　　而现实是残酷的。这句话实在不假。不断的战争，无休止的掠夺，流不完的鲜血摆明了那样的美好景象只不过是一个梦境。在世界存在的某一天起，一种情感油然而生——仇恨。人们对仇恨如此牢记在心，日积月累，一代传一代。后来的人们对仇恨如此盲从，如此笃定，硬是认为这是合乎所以的，没有道理可循的。仇恨越来越大，像乌云一样笼罩天空，无处不在。

　　为什么呢？为什么现实注定是残酷的，美丽的梦境注定只是一个梦境呢？因为世间充满了仇恨。可是又为什么充满世界的是仇恨而不是宽容、理解、关爱、照顾呢？ 我想，是因为欲望。

记得一个纪录片中所说的，原子弹的威力极为强大，而原理却极其简单。仅仅只需靠两个普通的大学生和几本基本原理书就能自制一颗危害力极强的原子弹。“人类终于制造出毁灭自我的武器。”为什么往往丑恶的东西更容易得到，而美好的东西却似乎极难呢？我想这也许是上帝考验人类的手段，又或者这恰好证明了人类的丑陋——如果人类把花在发明原子弹的时间和精力花在环境保护和人文关怀上，这个世界又会美好多少呢？可是，到底为什么人类总是要做这样的自取其辱、自寻毁灭的事情呢？我想，还是因为人类无可遏制的欲望。

　　是欲望，让我们的行为动词中出现了抢夺、侮辱、残害、欺骗……是欲望，让我们的情感世界中出现了仇恨、嫉妒、冷漠、虚荣……是欲望，让我们的发展过程中充斥着战争、武器、暴力、不和谐……是欲望。一切一切的丑恶归根结底是欲望。

　　何时人们才懂得欲望是毁灭人类的根源，何时人们才懂得遏制欲望呢？影片快结束时，印第安人高呼着：“你能永远把我当成你的朋友嘛？”我们的白人主人公紧紧促着眉头，始终没有回答——《与狼共舞》没有给我们答案。之后，一匹狼站在山顶，高高地仰起头深深地竭力地悲鸣——它也渴望着这个答案——但是没有人能够回答。

　　影片的最后留给我们一段话：

　　Thirteen years later, their homes destroyed, their buffalos gone, the last band of free Sioux submitted to white authority at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The great horse culture of the plains was gone and the American frontier was soon to pass into history.

　　伟大的、文明的、武器先进的白人最终取得了胜利，他们终于毁了印第安人的家园，不留给他们哪怕一寸土地，甚至剥夺了他们的生命。

　　我以为二战当中的排犹运动无时无刻不在我们的脑海中敲响警钟，而事实是，这样的事情每天都在发生。

 
  The movie Dances with Wolves is an extremely well written story about a veteran of the civil war who is trying to get on with his life. During the story Lieutenant Dunbar is trying to get past all of the savage actions that he was forced to proceed with during the most terrible war America has ever witnessed. He is shipped out to an abandoned post on the frontier where he is supposed to be fighting the Indians but instead he decides to make friends with them. He decides to be friends with them because he is tired of fighting. In the end he becomes one of the tribe and has a nice wife who was also adopted by the tribe. In the end all he wanted is to live freely and peacefully. This is one of the best written books that I have read in a long time, it keeps the readers interest which can be a very hard task at times.

  The director depicts Dunbar as a strong human character, who despite his surrounding circumstances, has lived productively and organized his week-days. Later he becomes friends with an Indian tribe and soon he finds his love. My favorite part of the movie is the development of the main character, because the audience are gradually introduced to a dynamic, handsome individual with a strong soul. When I watch the movie I learned about the life and traditions of Native Americans.

  The movie illustrates how important it is to change one's identity in order to survive in a different culture. The overall tone of the story is encouraging. This is an honest tale that describes relationships between an American soldier and Native Americans. The Comanche, a Native American tribe, is depicted here as real people. We gain access to the life of the main character through his intimate thoughts and feelings.

  What's most impressive about the film is how realistic it is. The world of the Native Americans comes to elegant life with incredible detail. Moreover, its leisurely pace, the subtitles, the wide-open spaces, the landscapes ... the physical aspects alone of this movie were enough to turn my head completely around. To say nothing of the score, the photography, the writing, the characters, the acting, and Kevin Costner's lovely, skillful, controlled direction.

  Anyway, I like the movie which makes me smile, laugh and sometimes want to cry.

    很早就知道这部片了，只是一直没有看。今天还是看了，我也不知道能说什么，看前两碟的时候，吸引我的只是故事，也不难看，让我看到印第安人的那种淳朴，那样的凝集，集体的感觉；以及两中人群慢慢交流的一个过程，其实他们并不掩埋，真正野蛮是自以为开化了人们，自以为用用自己的文明去开化他们，可自己却永远也不知道这样只会相互的冲突和血腥，打搅了他们固有的那种简单而纯真的文明。
   有一个场景记的很深，当“与狼共舞”被押送到一个地方的时候，那只狼始终跟着他，与那帮蠢士兵始终保持这一段距离，任士兵怎么用枪打都不走，它使我感动，他们建立起的关系无非只是一个是荒漠中的人，一个是荒漠中的狼，都是因为孤独，揍合在一起；当他前一次要离开他的时候，因为动物的本能恐惧性，最终的亲密始终还是有段距离的，那一次，它却从他手里叼走了那肉；这样一别，就很遥远了，可它却在他押送的路上再次出现了，那样的亲密人与人之间都无法体会，让人都觉得羡慕，也令我震惊。也时无想气〈天下乌贼里〉傻根的一句话：“我在工地的时候，都是狼陪我的，狼都能这样，何况人呢？”现在想想对人是一种讽刺，人总是把别人说的太坏，这样就有了消灭的理由。现在狼也没了，被人关着动物园里，狼也不是昔日的狼，虎也不再雄风；一切都丧失了。我不知道人研究那些濒临灭绝的动物是处于什么，是怜悯、惋惜、忏悔、还是愧疚，所 做的一切等等。
   这部片是奥斯卡最佳影片，不禁要问一句，为什么？其实拍的比这样片好的多的是，为什么？是呼吁人们认识到自己对印第安人所做的一切，以前看到过一些有关印第安人的文章，他们用教育去感化他们，用金钱去抚慰他们，而他们的文明呢？仅有的文明却要他们摆弄出来给所谓的文明人来看，不觉得很可悲吗？现在令我最迷茫的是大兴旅游业，开发一个破坏一个，固有的文明本来就很弱，一点受外界的侵扰，它的文明只能消失，留给人们的只有怀念。最近在看〈狼图腾〉，那样的文化其实现在已经荡然无存，傲气的蒙古狼只能在作者笔下从容、撕杀、挥洒。西藏的文化还能持续多久，那里的洁净还能沉受得了多少慕名而来游人的脚步。
   商业能够带来经济的繁荣，也能带来文明的流失。

when you come across the term “a native American”, I just wonder, what kind of image will you form in your mind? Feather headdresses, exposed chest, a spear in his hand. And what kind of cognition will you have? cruel, bloody, primitive, animal, beast.
Well, I have to admit that I used to depict American Indians in that way. But I have overcome these biases and corrected my opinion about the aboriginals and the white since I watched the film dance with wolves.

Dances with wolves, directed and starred by Kevin Costner, is a 1990 epic film which is set in US civil war in the mid-19 century. A United States Lieutenant John Dunbar travels to the American Frontier to find a military post. There he is supposed to fight against the Indians whereas he tries to make friends with them because of loneliness and tiredness of battle. They visit each other once in a while and their communication is quite difficult because of language barrier. Later, with the help of a white woman who is taken by the Sioux tribe as a young orphan, Dunbar establishes a rapport with the tribe’s medicine man called kicking bird. As he stays with these Indians, he finds himself drawn to the lifestyle and customs of the tribe. So he helps them locate a migrating herd of buffalo and defends the settlement against a Pawnee raiding party, which eventually makes him a hero and accepted as a full member of the tribe with a new name, dance with wolves. Peaceful life ends when the white men appear on the prairie. Dunbar is arrested by the reinforcing army troops as a deserter and later rescued by warriors from the tribe. At the end of the story, Dunbar decides to leave the tribe with his wife, in order to protect the rest and find a resolution to the white-Indian conflict.

The story itself is a touching one, but it’s not the most impressive part of the film to me. It is the depiction of the tribe, the representation of the aboriginal culture and the comparison between the white men’ behavior and the Indians’ one that leave a deep impression on me. Viewing from the director’s perspective, the Indian tribe was not as primitive as we thought, and the Native Americans were not as cruel and stupid as we learned from textbooks. They had their own culture, unique but not that inferior. They had their own ethic, exotic but harmless. Just as dance with wolves himself said in the film: “I have never known people so eager to laugh, so devoted to family, so dedicated to each other. And the only word came to mind was harmony.” Ironically, whenever and wherever the acknowledged civilized and educated white men appear, there are always wars, battles, lies and conflicts, either at the beginning of the film or the end of the story. The director’s brave and honest presentation of the racial conflict backs us to question: whether different cultures can be equally valuable? Even if not, is it humanitarian to slaughter in the name of progress?

It entertains. It educates. It provokes and persuades, moves and motivates. That’s the attraction of Dance with wolves.