"The Rider" ("Knight") A knight removed his greatest pride and fell on his horse. Since then, he has been constantly denied by the people around him, but what has been denied is what he thinks is the meaning of life. But his insistence is nothing but an illusion after all, and the immersed sadness that runs through the whole film is born from this. "I can't imagine what else I could do" A knight should die under a raging horse. The majestic soundtrack, the wild horse under the cowboy's crotch, is full of human wildness and libido. But it was all before and others, and I was still denied. What a grief the knight sold his horse and saddle and fell into a more illusory gamble. "You can't ride a horse anymore." The words that hurt his heart countless times made him face himself and the past. What I like most is the tenderness with which he communicates with this beautiful creature when he tames the horse. The wildness of nature becomes a tame foal. Domestication here has been separated from the violence of conquest, but expressed the harmonious commonality of life. Did he lose control of his clenched hands because of a brain injury that caused epilepsy? He can't let go of the reins, what he can't give up is the dream, the glory of the past. But he still learned to let go, and his obsession finally dissipated on the eve of the outbreak. Thinking back, there are only pictures of foals and cowboys roaming the grassland, and the sound of hoofs walking away.
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