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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee [DVD]
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Genre | Drama |
Format | NTSC, Color, Dolby, AC-3, DVD, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen, Closed-captioned |
Contributor | Adam Beach, Anna Paquin, Aidan Quinn, August Schellenberg |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 13 minutes |
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Inspired by Dee Brown's acclaimed bestseller, the HBO Films event begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn. The action centers on the struggles of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS), a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg, THE NEW WORLD), the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land; and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn, EMPIRE FALLS), one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While Eastman and schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Anna Paquin, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND), work to improve life for the Sioux on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant for kinder Indian treatment. Epic in scope, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is a new Western classic called "...insightful...deeply affecting...visually striking" by The Washington Post.
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With an acceptable balance of strengths and weaknesses, HBO's revisionist rendition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee can be recommended as a very basic (if slightly inaccurate) history lesson for younger viewers. It doesn't flinch from the harsh realities that were so passionately chronicled in author Dee Alexander Brown's enduring 1970 classic of Native American history, nor does it soften the brutality of violence between the U.S. federal forces and the doomed Native American tribes who fought to preserve their native territories, from the legendary battle of Little Big Horn in 1876 (depicted in the opening scenes) to the shameful slaughter of Sioux warriors at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890. Originally broadcast on May 27, 2007, and running slightly over two hours, this U.S./Canadian coproduction struggles to tell a story that would've been better served by a full-length miniseries (and will surely disappoint anyone familiar with Brown's important book), and the screenplay is so busy giving us a Cliff's Notes version of history that it lacks any particular focus or consistent point of view. Instead, we get a sobering, noble, and heartbreaking tale of territorial injustice, with forced parallels to the war in Iraq, full of admirable performances yet riddled with clichés and anachronistic details.
If you look closer, however, you'll find much to admire: Although his character was dubiously conceived to appeal to a contemporary white audience, Adam Beach (from Flags of Our Fathers) gives a fine performance as Charles Eastman, a Sioux doctor integrated into white society, who grows increasingly conflicted by the plight of his people. He's the tragic embodiment of the faulty ideals of Senator Dawes (Aidan Quinn), whose governmental effort to assimilate Native Americans leads to disastrous outbreaks of violence, depicted here with blunt-force realism. As Eastman's sympathetic and upright wife (a white schoolteacher with a strong sense of conscience), Anna Paquin makes the most of an underwritten role, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an impressive showcase for outstanding native American actors like August Schellenberg (as Sitting Bull) and Gordon Tootoosis (as Red Cloud), who bring obvious authority and conviction to their roles. The film is most effective when addressing the inevitable failure of the white man's well-meaning but ultimately misguided policies toward Native Americans. To the extent that we still struggle with the historical legacy of those policies, this flawed but instructional rendition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee can be viewed as a compact precursor to deeper historical study. --Jeff Shannon
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Media Format : NTSC, Color, Dolby, AC-3, DVD, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen, Closed-captioned
- Run time : 2 hours and 13 minutes
- Release date : September 11, 2007
- Actors : Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- Studio : Hbo Home Video
- ASIN : B000R20164
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,164 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,317 in Drama DVDs
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Like others in the ‘60’s, I began to question some of les idées reçues. I even had an in-depth tutorial on American treatment of another ethnic group, the Vietnamese. And I continue to recall the deliberate irony captured in the movie, “Hearts and Minds,” in which an American Indian, Stan Holder, is sitting on a rock outcrop at Placitas, NM, talking about how he was subjected to all the anti-Indian racial slurs in boot camp, but as soon as he got to Vietnam, he started calling the Vietnamese by all the ethnic slurs that we invented for them.
I read Dee Brown’s eponymously and brilliantly named history not long after its publication in 1970. Virtually all the information was new to me then. It forever shattered those received ideas from the ‘50’s, on the settlement of the American West.
Many of the specifics in the book I had not remembered after half a century. The book and the movie concern primarily the last years of the Sioux tribes before “the rez” takes them over, they are provided with reservations as their home, until something valuable is determined to be there, and then the political leadership in Washington concocts one more “last territorial demand.”
The time period of the movie is between 1876 and 1890. The bookends are the decisive Indian victory at Little Big Horn in present-day Montana and the massacre at Wounded Knee creek, in present-day South Dakota. August Schellenberg impressively plays Sitting Bull. The director is Yves Simoneau and the movie was released 2007. It appears to have had the financial support of the Alberta government, with at least parts of the movie filmed in Canada, where Sitting Bull and a band from his tribe fled during this 14-year period, before returning to settle on the rez.
I was impressed that this was not simply a negative of the black and white movies of the ‘50’s, with the Indians wearing the White Hats and the American military the Black ones. Right at the beginning, the American military commander reminded the Indian leader that pre-White Man, there was no pastoral Eden. The Sioux had lost in battles to the Chippewa, been forced to move westward as a result, in turn massacring other tribes that lived in the present-day Dakotas.
The elements of the clash of these two very different civilizations are well-depicted. There is the father telling his son that the world belongs to the White Man, so it is best to adopt his ways, including his religion. There is a sympathetic US Senator working to be “fair” to the defeated Indian tribes. There is the far-from-sympathetic Indian agent, James McLaughlin. There is accommodation and there is defiance. Indians are made policeman, all the better to control their own. Of course, there is also the enemy that kills far more than those who die in battle: measles, whooping cough and influenza. Just like today. There is the search for a “deus ex machina,” and the Ghost Dance promises the Indians they will be bullet-proof. Just like today, with updated “Ghost Dances” for COVID-19.
Finally, the eyes have it. Normally when the eyes truly speak, it involves love making, a la James Joyce’s closing to “Ulysses”: “…and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower…” In this movie the eyes, of several different actors, brilliantly speak, and it has nothing to do with love making, but rather defeat, resignation, defiance. I was overwhelmed. And I wondered how many takes were required to obtain that perfect look or was it possible, all, just on the first take? It is a very impressive movie, worthy of my special rating of 6-stars.
(Simoneau, 2007)
Works Cited
Simoneau, Y. (Director). (2007). Bury My heart at Wounded Knee [Motion Picture].
The History of Native American Indigenous Religions. (2013). In Invitation to World Religions (p. 48). Oxford.