Marginal communities, broken families (Arbor is a single-parent divorced family, raised by his mother, and an irritable brother, Xiaopang Dun Swifty is in a desperate home where he has uncontrolled births and his father can live by selling furniture), difficult situations .
Arbor's strong academic dislike and criminal mind made him a "bad influence" on Swifty in the mouth of a black female employee, and it is true.
Kitten, a scrap dealer, played the role of a typical black-hearted businessman, using minors to steal cables, which eventually led to the tragedy of Swifty. When he was taken away by the police, his conscience discovered that he took the initiative to bear the guilt, allowing Arbor to escape punishment for the direct cause of the accident. It makes people wonder whether this is the last brilliance of human nature or a sudden whitewash?
The horses in the film are very heavy. This powerful, sensitive and gentle (in most cases) creatures encounters in this community as tragic as Arbor and Swifty. In horse racing on the highway, gamblers drove to whistle and scream after horseshoes; in the wasteland outside the power plant, the pony was almost used by Arbor as a test product to test whether the cable is live; Swifty showed it in the communication with the horses. Talent has gained a rare sense of security.
Arbor has a line that is very topical, to the effect that when life finally picks up, there will always be some shit and bad things that make the situation worse.
ps: It was discovered by accident that the actor's name Arbor was also the title of the director's last work (The Arbor, 2010)
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