Violence of ‘Wolves’

I was thoroughly shocked by Margaret Fink’s Jan. 6 letter concerning “GoodFellas” and “Dances With Wolves. However one feels about the “violent depiction” of Mafia hoods at the hands of “every critic’s favorite,” Martin Scorsese, one must surely realize that soulless and unspeakable violence is at the very heart of Kevin Costner’s “Dances With Wolves.”

How can one walk away from this powerful film feeling anything but disgust for the atrocities committed against the Native Americans and nature itself by our own ancestors? Yet Ms. Fink can only describe this film as “beautiful.”

I fear that the same insidious ignorance that befell our forefathers must still be within us if the violent acts of a few gangsters outweigh the horrible genocide of entire cultures.

GARY CLAUSEN

Chatsworth