How the West Was Won/Lost The two films we viewed showed the different views on how the white man views the history of our land and how the Indians view the land. Both films portrayed positives about their belief and implied negatives about the other side. I don’t think I’ve ever gone through a history lesson until watching these films where I was exposed to a situation in which I was able to see and hear from both sides of the story. It is really a shame that more children and teachers don’t get to learn the truth. Now that I think of it ever since elementary we ” ve been taught and told that the U. S.
is always the good guys and we never do the wrong thing. If I could go back and take a couple of classes in another country I would love to compare the facts or rather the stories that are told. I believe history in school works the same way as the government does, they allow the public to here what they want it to here. I support and believe that everyone should be open to here both sides and perspectives of the stories. I think more people would become interested in history if they were exposed to different views of different ethnic backgrounds. I’ve brought up this question before and the only kind of answer I got was it would cause confusion and controversy.
History has and probably will always favor the country of its author. There’s nothing really wrong with that except we need to let children know that there is another side to the story. They shouldn’t be limited to what their teacher of book tells them. Furthermore if it wasn’t for this film this topic would have never really crossed my mind.
The Essay on A Brief History of Film
History of film has been dominated by the discovery and testing of the paradoxes inherent in the medium itself. Film uses machines to record images of life; it combines still photographs to give the illusion of continuous motion; it seems to present life itself, but it also offers impossible unrealities approached only in dreams.The motion picture was developed in the 1890s from the union of still ...
