The New World (2006)
The girl playing Pocahontas, Q’Orianka Kilcher, does a fine job in this film about the Jamestown colony and John Smith. It’s a very pretty and artful film with little dialog. One thing I thought about the film was it’s score seemed a little too European. Even while in the Indian village the Mozart-like violins sing. The Indians’ should have their own music at least in their own place at that time, I was thinking. But perhaps Horner didn’t know what to do for that music for the Indians. But also perhaps it was an indication of the European domination of the new world, even as the colonists just landed stumblingly onto the shores of Virginia and nearly starved to death, and until today.
