I like the story told in this film, and I also like the tone of this film, such a strong oil painting-like color slams into my heart with a strong impact, and then condenses and depicts a warm and beautiful memory there.
It's a story about love, it's a story about commitment, it's a story about faith and persistence.
The love in "War Horse" includes family and friendship, and is delicate and subtle. Although some bridges are a little deliberate, but... in the end, it still achieves its purpose - tearing, at least for me.
There are no real bad guys in this movie. In terms of the warmth and beauty that pervade the whole work, the ugliest thing is only the brutal war, which is the biggest villain in the play. Perhaps, in our daily life, we have seen more so-called "ugly human nature", but what this movie shows us is basically the beauty of human nature.
The first thing that made me cry was the battle of the cavalry charge, from the beginning of tears for the German army to the tears for the British army at the back, in the war... Are there so-called good and bad soldiers among those soldiers? "Prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer", the people at the bottom are just involuntarily pawns who are controlled by those in power. I feel sorry for the German soldiers who died under the sword of the British army, and also the British soldiers who died under the gun of the German army. Those horses are even more innocent... They are weapons used by those in power, and they are more involuntary than people. Behind the cruel scene of corpses lying everywhere is the brokenness of one family after another. The cruelty of "poor and uncertain riverside bones, like people in a spring boudoir's dream" in Tang poems is no exception in any country's war.
For the pair of German teenagers, the elder brother would rather take the responsibility of "deserting" and take the younger younger brother away from the battlefield to escape the war, but no matter which catastrophe he escaped, he could not escape the gun of the other side. This kind of destruction of beauty is truly heartwarming. broken.
Joey is a very spiritual horse, so smart and kind. The "brotherhood" between him and his friend, the dark horse, has brought tears to my eyes and tears. When it took the initiative to replace the injured black horse and put it on the cannon cart, it once looked back at the black horse that was pulled away. Those dark and deep eyes broke my heart instantly.
Because of love, Albert's promise to Joey "Wherever you are, I will find you and bring you home". Because of love, Joey survived the brutal war for four years. Four years of waiting and searching because of the promise; Albert never gave up, so when he hears "a miracle horse" he blows the whistle he used to call Joey to save it at gunpoint; Joey never gave up, so he kept his master's whistle in mind and saved himself at gunpoint.
Because of the commitment, we have the belief and persistence to never give up, and we have the final reunion.
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