It is as real as a documentary, as meaningful as a landscape painting, as sentimental as a poem, and as euphemistic as a ballad.
This is a group of people who have been fighting for a living in the bad land for generations, but they are so delicate and tender under the camera. This is the story of a horseman who pursues his ideals without hesitation, but what makes him truly a "knight" is his act of leaving the arena voluntarily.
The actor who plays the hero of the film, Brady, is also called Brady, who was originally a Sioux professional rodeo in South Dakota. In the film, his father and sister (who has Asperger's syndrome) are his real family, and the young man who is unable to take care of himself in the hospital is indeed his brain-damaged friend. Director Zhao Ting met Brady when she was filming her debut film "The Song My Brother Teach Me to Sing" two years ago. She said that she wanted Brady to be the protagonist of her next film, but the specific plot was not well thought out. Later, when Brady had an accident and his skull was cracked by a horse (that is, the wound stitched with staples in the film), Zhao Ting decided to photograph the character's mental journey during the recovery process. This blurring of the boundaries between reality and fiction (later I found out that this type of film is called docufiction), coupled with her calm and restrained photography style, leads us to meet such a group of Native Americans (Lakota) who are usually not paid much attention to. clan), feel their simple but respectable way of life.
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