A violent healing movie

Antone 2022-04-15 08:01:01

"Wild Horse", a violent healing movie. Horses are wild and untamable wild horses, and people are withdrawn and violent prisoners. Such a combination naturally yells from time to time and starts fights at every turn, but when I After watching the film "Wild Horse", what I felt was not violence or conflict, but the warmth that gradually established trust between animals and people. Prisoners tame wild horses, wild horses heal prisoners, and use "violence" to control "violence". Violence and healing are two words that have completely different meanings, but they are perfectly integrated and unified in the film "Wild Horse". I have to sigh Let prisoners train Mustangs with this genius design. The epic poem of "Mustang" revolves around the prisoners "Roman" and the mustang "Marquis". The film is based on real events that took place in a prison in the western United States, and has the participation of the prototypes of real people. Towards the end of the film, there is a prisoner named Thomas, when he watched his carefully tame horse being put into the carriage after a successful auction, the expression on his face was mixed with reluctance, anger and helplessness. , It is really moving, which may be derived from real moving. Before telling the story, let me introduce the background of the movie. There are still more than 100,000 wild horses in the western prairie of the United States today. In order to maintain the ecological balance, the US government keeps thousands of wild horses in captivity every year to control the breeding number and activity area of ​​wild horses. The training of savage wild horses is an important part of the rehabilitation program carried out by American prisons, which coincides with it, so some wild horses among the thousands of wild horses will be sent to prisons and domesticated by prisoners. The rehabilitation program is designed to allow prisoners to tame themselves and purify their minds while taming wild horses. After 12 weeks of domestication, most of the wild horses are domesticated and then auctioned, and those that are not domesticated will face the fate of euthanasia. The film begins with the U.S. government's roundup of wild horses. A group of wild horses rested leisurely and galloped freely on the vast grassland. The "humming" helicopter broke the original harmony. Under the "guide" of the low-flying helicopter, the panicked wild horses followed the long-planned path of human beings. The "escape" route, "success" entered the human encirclement, so another prisoner and wild horse story began to happen. As Roman said, "I'm not good at getting along with people", the dialogue with the psychologist shows that Roman's character is withdrawn, closed, irritable and impulsive. When his daughter visited, Roman actually recognized the wrong person, and was called back by his daughter when he was about to sit down in front of the family members of other prisoners. During the entire visit, the only thing Roman and his daughter said was "Dont come back. "Romain confided to his daughter the pain and remorse that had been accumulated in his heart for many years. This was the first time the two had opened up their hearts and had a frank exchange. They soon arrived at the Mustang auction, and Marquis, who finally appeared, performed as always, from the auction price. It can be seen that Roman's domestication was successful. However, just when everyone was applauding, the sudden roar of a helicopter in the low sky shattered all the goodness. Perhaps out of an instinct to panic about the roar Reflection, maybe the appearance of the helicopter touched Marquis's sensitive nerves (helicopter is the tragic beginning of Marquis's captivity), Marquis instantly turned back to a wild horse, ran wildly, shouted hysterically, and didn't care at all at this time. His former friend Roman, who was riding on his body, fell off his horse heavily. Roman was injured at the auction, and the rehabilitation program for domesticating wild horses was cancelled. Roman expresses his apology to the horseman who has devoted his life to training horses. The teacher didn't blame Roman, but comforted Roman by saying something meaningful, "You can tame some horses, but you can't tame some horses, but the most unfortunate thing is that they built this stupid low fence again, Taped up. "Ma Shi's sentence points out the core of the whole film. This sentence can be understood in two parts. The first part wants to express that not all wild horses can be domesticated into the state that humans want, just like Not all prisoners can be transformed into so-called good people. Although the existence of Marquis is a minority, it is normal. The second layer means the construction of ironic fences, trying to trap the wild horses with the fences glued with tape, It's like a prison trying to use high walls to wake up violent prisoners. Intangible love can't be domesticated, let alone the visible fence. "Bang bang bang", Marcus slammed the door hard, as if to declare that savage is his own nature. From Roman's point of view, this deafening slam on the door was more like a distress signal from his companions. He also lost his freedom and was imprisoned here. Under the guidance of empathy, Roman opened the door without any scruples and let him go. Marquis, helping Marquis to return to the vast wilderness that belongs to him, he knows the meaning of free running for Marquis. This film not only promotes the love and trust between humans and animals, and mutual redemption, but also throws out A thought-provoking question, free running is the nature of wild horses, some can be domesticated, and some are still wild after domestication, so should we praise the successful domestication of horses for knowing "survival of the fittest", or should we praise keeping wild? The horses stick to their nature and are not afraid of rape? Just as those violent criminals who are not really "bad" face severe punishment by the law due to a momentary misconception, how much is the role of reform in their long imprisonment, or is it such a punishment? Is it reasonable ,science? This is a movie without ups and downs, so bland that it looks like a documentary, but the truth revealed in the blandness makes you feel that every plot is worth savoring slowly and carefully. This reminds me of a movie called "Leave No Trace", which is also plain and full of conflict, but like this "Wild Horse", it is a movie that makes me feel no hostility, a gentle, kindly film , a healing movie, a movie full of love and trust, a movie that can purify the mind, release stress, and get rid of impetuousness. Finally, I would like to praise the rationality of the plot design and the cohesion of the narrative in this film. It can be said that Roman Reigns has changed a lot in the whole film, but this change does not give people a sense of abruptness at all. On the contrary, under the director's narration, people feel that the change of this big contrast is unexpected but reasonable. This change seems to be natural and natural.

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The Mustang quotes

  • Psychologist: You've been in isolation. What do you think about that?

    Roman: I'm not good with people.

  • Martha: When I was six, I, uh, started to write letters of support to your parole board. But your parole was always denied, so I thought it was my fault that you were still in prison, because I wasn't a good enough writer. Then, when I got older, I understood. You didn't want to get out. So I stopped writing. I kept one of those letters. "My dad is fun. Send him back home".