Just tell me if the horse dies. I don't want to see that. Otherwise an intriguing plot since wild horses are being systematically eradicated.
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The New York Times published an article a few years ago, where the Mustang population is out-of-control, and these horses are not in great shape. At last count, a viable solution has yet to be reached of how to lessen this wild break-out.
Apparently the author Joyce Carol Oates in adolescence took her first manuscript about a lost drug addict and his bond with a dangerous horse, but it was rejected because it was deemed too dark.
With mention credited to Robert Redford from Wyoming, and to the director of 'The Mustang', Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, it sounds thundering and worthy. Bruce Dern, last seen by this viewer, in a stellar performance of 'Nebraska', and a new cast of characters, onto the list it goes with appreciation to Ms. Dargis for her helpful review.
Ode to Thunderhead by Mary O'Hara; to the isolated Romans in our midst deemed beyond redemption, and the green blue grass of some of our heartland states often forgotten in the turmoil of the times we live.
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I would never see this movie. It makes me sick to see horses used and abused in movies and TV shows. Horses are not actors. They don't choose to participate. I'm sick of seeing horses abused, for dramatic effect, forced to rear up, kick crazily in a stall, gagged by a painful bit, the whites of their eyes, their ears pulling back in fear, or forced to buck with a man slamming down on their back - again all for dramatic effect. It's bad enough these things are routinely done to horses in the real world, but to then put them through it for a movie?
As to the subject matter: Keep wild horses wild. Find other ways to rehabilitate inmates. Leave the free-living horses alone.
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@Catherine - When animals have significant parts in movies, I'm accustomed to seeing in the credits that representatives of the American Humane Society have overseen the animal-involved scenes to ensure human treatment. Isn't this the case here? Don't get me wrong...I'm an animal-lover myself, and a cat owner.
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@Catherine - the wild horse is not native to North America, neither is the beef cow. Both have been extremely damaging to the ecosystem. Neither belong where they are.
That said, I own a pair of PMU rescues; these horses should have never been bred. But pregnant mare urine (Premarin) is collected and sold. It is collected by impregnating a young draft mare, putting her in a diaper, and leaving her stalll bound for 10 months. At the end of gestation she is turned out to a field. If the goal dies, so what.
Justin was born lacking the enzyme necessary to process the mare’s milk, and he founders easily. Otis has ERU and will be blind in a year. Both are 14.
The longer I am around horsepeople the less I care for them. Your suggestion to let wild horses run free sentences them to a brief, hungry life, and a cruel slow death from starvation. If you owned a horse you might not be so quick to offer such a cruel suggestion.
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Do a little research on American “Humane” Association and you”ll find they’re there to support the industry. I spent years in the film and tv industry and saw firsthand how animals are mistreated all in the name of getting the shot.
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