Film Response: the Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Film Response: The Last of the Mohicans (1992) The story begins with a dying tribe called the Mohicans in which three men are left from the tribe. During the conquest period of the United States in the 18th century, French and English soldiers came into battle that forced the native American to choose one party. These three men refuse to take sides for which they want is freedom. Troughtout the story, these three men intercepted Indians attacking a small group of British soldiers that included the two daughters of a British Colonel while they were reaching the fort in Kentucky. When one man from the Mohicans and the British Colonel daughter saw each other, a love story takes place and the battle between the French and the Indians still continues. This movie shows the battles, traditions and certain characteristics that reflects on the American culture nowadays. First, the relationship the British Colonel daughter named Cora and Uncas “ a Mohican” have. Because Uncas is an American Indian man and Cora is a European/Afro- American which they both are and look different they still fell in love. The American culture today suggest that different races should be separate and pure, the director of the story portrays this . Another example of American culture reflected on the movie is the image we have on Indians. The director in the movie places almost all the Native Americans “ the Indians” as brutal and mean. Viewers should not get carried away and believe what they see in movies is true, but to follow the proper information on Indian culture. Throughout the movie, it caught my attention that nowadays the idea of a family are the parents and childrens and there are special cases where parents adopt children but always structured as parents to be the