content: I have to tip my hat to Costner, this was a fine film. It is a celebration of the Plains Indian way of life. What I like is that Costner made it a personal story. He wasn't trying to be anyone, and he let the Native Americans shine in this epic revisionist Western. Graham Greene was superb, as were most of the native cast. I got the sense that Costner took a new spin on "The Searchers," in which John Wayne played a disenchanted Confederate soldier who found himself out west. But, whereas "The Searchers" was much more cynical, Costner's film is pure romanticism. The story was "real" enough to draw you into the characters, which is all you can expect from a feature-length film.