在这部新世界剧情/爱情/传记/历史片中,故事发生在17世纪的北美大陆，尽管生存环境恶劣，资源稀缺，但世世代代生活在这里的印第安人仍然享受着延续了百年的宁静生活。然而，这样的生活伴随着来自西方文明世界的三艘小船的到来即将划上终点，103名英国水手来到了这片未经开垦的处女地，建设了他们的据点，在这里宣扬他们的宗教和文化。
“永恒苏珊”号的甲板上，一位名叫史密斯（柯林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）的青年因为违抗军令而即将遭到处死，船长纽波特（克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰）看中史密斯的精明强干，留下了他。一行人上岸驻扎，建立了詹姆斯镇，却在无意之中侵犯了酋长波瓦坦（欧琳卡·乔彻 Q'Orianka Kilcher 饰）的领地。之后，史密斯邂逅了酋长的女儿波卡洪塔斯（Q'orianka Kilcher 饰），两人之间产生了一段传奇的感情。
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newport's ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives, who have no personal property concept, turn hostile after a 'theft' is 'punished' violently on the spot. During an armed exploration, Smith is captured, but spared when the chief's favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads for the stranger who soon becomes her lover and learns to love their naive 'savage' way of harmonious life. Ultimately he returns to the grim fort, which would starve hadn't she arranged for Indian generosity. Alas, each side soon brands their own lover a traitor, so she is banished and he flogged as introduction to slavish toiling. Changes turn again, leading Smith to accept a northern-more mission and anglicized Pocahontas, believing him dead, becoming the mother of aristocratic new lover John Rolfe's son. They'll meet again for a finale in England.
唯美诗意的上乘之作。从《美丽新世界》来谈文明的冲突和融合——我的观影。看见生命。人生应存希望 一切都还来得及。新世界：美洲殖民的源头。诗歌与电影结合。双重意义的新世界。一首新世界的诗。CC版观感。心灵的共鸣。
