Equus is Latin, the corresponding English meaning is 'horse', and the Chinese translation is "horse lover". Daniel, 17, who was the first to know about the stage play in the much-reported Harry Potter movie, will star in the show naked.
The show, written by Schaffer, is based on a true event in which a stable boy inexplicably poked six horses blind in the eyes. "Love Horses" caused an earthquake when it first performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in 1973. After that, "Love Horses" moved to Broadway in the United States, during which Anthony Hopkins played the leading role and performed 1,200 times, becoming one of the most successful plays in New York history. In 1977, Hollywood adapted "Love Horses" into a movie. The film won the 1978 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor two awards and Oscar for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Altered Screenplay. nominate.
The film begins with the recollection of a psychiatrist. A well-behaved 17-year-old boy suddenly stabbed the eyes of six horses in the stable where he worked. Just as he was about to face court, a well-respected local psychiatrist offered to accept him. He went to his own clinic for treatment, which also helped him avoid other punishments.
The psychiatrist used a number of ways to hope the teenager could speak to all his horse-related experiences before his stabbing to help analyse the source of his puzzling behaviour. But at first, the teenager kept hiding his thoughts and was unwilling to say anything. The psychiatrist can only understand the boy's heart from his relatives. From the communication with his parents and his part-time horse farm owner, it can be seen that the boy has been strictly disciplined by his parents since he was a child, and he is not allowed to touch anything in the world around him. The only window for him to understand the world is to hear from his mother about From the various stories of the Bible, and the family photos of his equestrian uncle, the only thing that gave him imagination was a picture of the crucifixion by the bedside of his bedroom. The religious connotation of this film is too contrived, and most of the dialogues are very obscure religious terms, so when I watch it, I can't understand a lot of things.
When the boy was 6 years old, his parents took him to the beach to play. By chance, he met a gentleman who was riding a horse and invited him to come and experience the fun of riding. The boy felt joy and freedom for the first time as he galloped on horseback, but at this moment he was severely reprimanded by his father for dismounting.
Since then, the boy has been fascinated by horses, and at the same time, he seems to have found something in common with horses from the crucifix on the bedside. The shackles on Jesus are like reins on the head of a horse, which are bound and tortured by people; Jesus' disheveled hair is like a horse's mane; Jesus' pained expression is like a horse's helpless demeanor; the background composed of the vast crowd behind Jesus Like a meadow where horses run. He should treat horses as gods. He felt that horses were born to suffer, and they were slaves to people all their lives, and that he would suffer for them. So at night he often faced a picture of a horse (his father tore off the picture of the crucifixion by his bedside, thinking it was blasphemous, and he cried and made a scene and finally replaced it with a picture of a horse. Be still), bind yourself with the reins, and enslave yourself with whiplashes.
Later, through the introduction of a friend, the boy found a part-time job cleaning stables on a horse farm, and he went to work for two days every weekend. But the boss accidentally discovered that the boy often led the horse out at night, and the horse was in the stable as usual the next day. The psychiatrist used hypnosis to tell the boy what he did after taking the horse out at night. The boy's subconscious has been refusing to tell this experience, and finally, under the stimulation of the doctor, he finally said: he likes to hug the horse naked, like the feeling of his cheek against the neck of the horse, and like to ride naked on the horse. (On the Internet, it is said that he rides naked to find sexual pleasure, but I don't think so), I like to feel the feeling of being one with the horse in the process of galloping, and the horse is the GOD in his heart.
After long hours at the racecourse, he developed a relationship with another 16-year-old girl who worked there. One night, they sneak into the cinema to watch an adult movie, and the boy sees the naked woman for the first time. Just then, his father walked into the cinema again and found his son. In fact, his father also came to the cinema to watch this movie, but in order to avoid embarrassment, he pretended that he was here to talk to the boss here to discuss business, and everyone knew each other. Just when his father called him home, he bravely challenged his father's authority and ran back to the stable with the girl. In fact, the film has already done a lot of foreshadowing here, and the next plot is smooth and the physical contact between men and women. This movie is still relatively bold, both men and women are naked on six sides. But the horse had taken over all of his spirit, the horse was his god, and he couldn't get rid of the influence of the horse in his mind at all when kissing the girl. He said: When I opened my eyes, I saw a horse standing between us; but when I opened my eyes, my mind was full of images of horses, so that I could not feel the existence of her body at all.
The image of the horse, as God, has been monitoring his activities, making him unable to interact with women normally although he is extremely eager, I think it is not difficult to understand that he stabbed the horse in the eye at this time.
The film revolves around sexual arousal, Greek mythology, and religion, and can only be seen half-understood. In fact, I think the reason for his love for horses is very simple, that is, the family education has isolated him from the outside world, coupled with the religious ideas that his mother has instilled in him all day long. Contact with the horse became the only way for him to free himself, so he turned the horse into a god. It's not so much a love for horses as it is about the worship of the God.
Another interesting aspect of the movie is that while treating the boy, the psychiatrist constantly discovers the dark side of his heart. In the movie he mentioned that he has not had sex with his wife for many years. Even in the doctor's monologue part of the film, he looks so angry. Also, the movie showed me the scary side of hypnotism, when it evokes painful memories, it often brings people to the brink of death.
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