A Man Called Horse [Blu-ray] Reviews

The millions of people who have watched James Cameron’s Avatar either in a theater or on home video already know the gist of the story for Elliot Silverstein’s A Man Called Horse. True, the more recent picture had a mega-million dollar budget, 3D, and production design of awe-inspiring complexity. A Man Called Horse is without most of those things, but the basic tale of a man assimilating into a foreign culture after a period of exposure to it rings very true in both films. Both films have a romance at their cores, and both protagonists must undergo a trial by fire to prove their worthiness to their respective culture’s demands as to their roles within their new society. Stripped of the elaborate special effects that distinguished Avatar, A Man Called Horse can be just as dramatically compelling. A man from one culture learning real human values within another culture has the stamp of authenticity regardless of the surrounding production whether it be bare bones or opulent.

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