Solution 1 :

all you need to do is, just add some color on active slide’s indicator, I have used your code, and aaded a single line in css, and you can see the result.

body {background: #333 !important;}
.carousel-indicators {
  bottom: -50px !important;
}
.carousel-indicators li.active {background: red;}
.carousel-item {color: white; font-size: 80px;}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.4.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/2.4.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<div id="slides" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">

    <ul class="carousel-indicators">
        <li data-target="#slides" data-slide-to="0" class ="active"></li>
        <li data-target="#slides" data-slide-to="1"></li>
        <li data-target="#slides" data-slide-to="2"></li>
    </ul>

    <div class="carousel-inner active">
        <div class="carousel-item active">
           1
        </div>

        <div class="carousel-item">
            222
        </div>
<div class="carousel-item">
           3333
        </div>
    </div>

    <a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#slides" role="button" data-slide="prev">
        <span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
        <span class="sr-only">Previous</span>
    </a> 

    <a class="carousel-control-next" href="#slides" role="button" data-slide="next"> 
        <span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span class="sr-only">Next</span>
    </a>

</div>

Problem :

As Select my indicators to move onto the next section of the slide
show, upon clicking it does not work. is there any reason to why this
is not working

<div id="slides" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
    <ul class="carousel-indicators">
        <li data-target="#slides" data-slide-to="0" class ="active"></li>
        <li data-target="#slides" data-slide-to="1"></li>
        <li data-target="#slides" data-slide-to="2"></li>
    </ul>

    <div class="carousel-inner active">
        <div class="carousel-item">
            <img src ="img/background.png">
        </div>

        <div class="carousel-item">
            <img src ="img/background2.png">
        </div>
    </div>

    <a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#slides" role="button" data-slide="prev">
        <span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
        <span class="sr-only">Previous</span>
    </a> 

    <a class="carousel-control-next" href="#slides" role="button" data-slide="next"> 
        <span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span class="sr-only">Next</span>
    </a>

</div>

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