Film Review of “Dances with Wolves” This is a wonderful film set in 1863 during the Civil War. The main character is John Dunbar, a lieutenant in the United States Army, played by Kevin Costner. The film begins with Dunbar in the field hospital with a badly injured leg that doctors plan to amputate. Dunbar decides that he does not want to live without a leg and leaves the field hospital, takes a horse and crosses enemy lines where he expects to meet death. Instead of meeting death, he somehow misses due to the madness of the bullets aimed his way, and his actions inspire his troops to break the deadlock and defeat the enemy Confederate troops. As a result, the Commander rewards Dunbar by having his personal surgeon save Dunbar's leg and granting him to be stationed at any post he desires. Dunbar wishes to see the western frontier and requests to be stationed at Fort Sedgwick. When he arrived at the fort, he noticed that it was deserted. He chooses to remain alone and assume his duty as a soldier. His identity as a lieutenant in the US Army is very strong and he is determined to hold the fort until new soldiers arrive. Fort Sedgwick is located in Native American territory and its presence soon becomes known when the holy man from the area's Lakota Sioux tribe comes to the fort. This holy man is called Kicking Bird and the actor who plays him is Graham Greene. Dunbar was swimming at the time and saw that Kicking Bird was trying to catch his horse so he ran at him to stop him while he was totally naked. This frightened Kicking Bird and he quickly returned to his Sioux village. Once Kicking Bird returned home, he shared his...... middle of paper ......es. The film took a linguistic relativism perspective at this point, shown when all white words had a Sioux word that it could be translated into with the same meaning. Dances with Wolves would continue to immerse oneself in Sioux culture. If he had studied intercultural communication, one would say he was taking an interpretive approach and perspective because "these methods require an individual to spend a significant amount of time (months or even years) living and interacting with members cultural” (Oetzel p.23). He would even marry Stands with a fist. In summary, Dances with Wolves has undergone many changes that have given it a new identity. He was intensely affected by Sioux culture in a top-down manner, from the Sioux cultural and societal layers down to him as an individual. The film ends with him in Dances with Wolves, a Sioux man..