When it comes to cowboys in the American West, a few words quickly pop into most people's minds: wide-brimmed cowboy hats, spiked riding boots, revolvers, galloping horses. It can be said that these phrases are standard for cowboys, and the lack of any one makes cowboys less like "cowboys", and the most indispensable of them is horses. For cowboys, horses are almost their Half-Life. But if one day, a cowboy gives up riding, is he still a cowboy?
The encouragement we have heard most since childhood is to persist and persist, no matter what we do, as if we will succeed if we persist, we will also gain applause and envy from people; on the contrary, if you choose to give up, you should Do something and you will be seen as a coward, a failure, but is that really the case? The movie "Knight" tells us the story of a cowboy who voluntarily gave up riding.
The content of the story of "Knight" is very simple, as simple as my sentence above summarizes the plot of the whole movie. But the famous screenwriter and writer A Cheng said: " To write a movie, the story should be simple, the plot is complex, and the details are rich and interesting ", and "Knight" is such a movie.
The film is called "The Knight," but from start to finish, we hardly ever see the main character Brady riding a horse. At the very beginning of the film, we see a frail and weak male protagonist who is recovering from a serious injury. In the video clips and photos, however, we see another Brady, a super bull rider who not even a mad wild horse can throw off his back.
This beginning is very routine. I believe that most people are like me. After reading the beginning, you can guess the development of the story. This must be a story of a protagonist who has repeatedly challenged his fate after suffering a heavy setback and finally regained his position at the peak of his life. . But luckily, after an hour and a half, I saw a different ending.
I forgot where I heard the saying, " If you love something, you must die on it ." Throughout the ages, we have seen countless warriors and heroes face death again and again because they couldn't let go of what they love in their hearts. . The same was true for Brady, who wanted to grit his teeth and continue to sit on horseback even with the call of death ahead.
Throughout the movie, we see Brady preparing to get back on his horse, and even though he's frail as a child, he doesn't waver in his belief that he'll be back on the field again. " I believe God has given all of us a different mission, for a horse it is to run on the prairie, for a cowboy it is to ride. " It was his life and he had to get back on the horse again, but in the end , but he became a deserter in the face of fate. Why would a warrior make such a cowardly choice? I think it was his beloved horse and the people he loved that changed him.
The brown horse named Apollo, like Brady, was a guy who didn't want to give in to his fate, so Brady was drawn to him at first sight. In Brady's relationship with Apollo, it was more like a friend than a master and a mount. He rode it across the prairie, and it brought back the feeling of his glory days.
Brady never tied Apollo, but took off the saddle and let it roam the prairie, and when Brady needed it, Apollo would run back to him with a single call. However, the parting came too quickly, and Apollo's death also made Brady understand, just like the mission of a horse is to gallop on the grassland, and the mission of a cowboy is to ride a horse, the horse will eventually die in the grassland, and the ultimate destination of the cowboy must be horseback. .
It can be said that the appearance and disappearance of this horse strengthened Brady's confidence to be a "warrior" who died for the cause he loved, but it was the people he loved who turned him into a "coward".
In this film, there is a disabled man named Ryan Scott, who is Brady's best brother and most admired idol. On Ryan's back, there is a big tattoo of " SAY I WONT (say I can't?)", which is a young and energetic genius rider's response to all those who questioned him, but now, this genius is sitting in a wheelchair , become a disabled person who is completely incapacitated.
In addition to Ryan, Brady has two favorite people - father and sister. His father seemed to be an unceremonious and alcoholic bastard, but paid for him when he needed it, and helped him deal with Apollo when he was in pain; and his sister, although a mentally handicapped girl, But he was always kind to his brother.
At the end of the film, the father, who knew that he was sure to die, quietly brought his sister to the arena, watching the old father and the forever innocent sister, watching his right hand spasm due to holding the reins for a long time, the determined Breeze Di hesitated: going forward, he will die like a hero, desperate to die alone; turning his head, he will live like a coward, living with his loved ones. Finally, he let go of the hand that was holding the reins, and used it to embrace his loved ones.
Is it really worth it to sacrifice your life for what you love? I don't think so. Sometimes, our brave behavior of giving up everything for what we love seems very difficult, but it is actually easy to do; on the contrary, it seems easy to let us give up what we love, but it actually requires more courage. Although Brady escaped his mission to die on horseback, he made a more difficult choice, using his "surviving" life to accompany his loved ones to continue living.
Sometimes, it is more difficult and brave to give up.
A few last words : This film is written and directed by Zhao Ting, the stepdaughter of the famous actor Song Dandan. The story is based on the real experience of the starring Brady. All the cowboys appearing in the film are played by themselves, which fully demonstrates the western part of American society today. The desolation and the real life of the cowboys is a very wonderful academic film.
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