I admire the courage of Americans to compete with nature. This is a nation that has no fear in the face of anything. I believe this is why they can present their best to the world. s things. "A Generation of Pride Horses" takes horse racing as its theme. This theme is unfamiliar to almost all mainland Chinese. We have never seen a sturdy galloping horse, have not seen a wide racecourse, and have never experienced the rush of blood on the arena. We and the racing horses The distance between the two worlds is almost maintained, as if there is an invisible vacuum in the middle, separating us. So, when I first saw a racetrack in America in the 1970s, I was amazed. I am amazed that there are such a group of professional horse trainers, jockeys, and horse owners outside our land. They uphold their own beliefs and mingle with a group of galloping horses.
The protagonist of "A Generation of Horses" is not the glittering Seretariat, but an ordinary woman, a housewife, Penny Chenery. This may be the reason why it does not fall into the cliché of other horse racing movies, it does not have the same horse racing plot, no A popcorn story with an ending that can be seen from the very beginning. In fact, it's a story about growing up. In the film, Penny's insistence on his belief in horse racing, Seretariat ran out of his glory all the way, and the relatives and friends around Penny finally resolved differences, understood and recognized, and all the plots were shaped in the direction of inspirational films. So, this is an inspirational movie. In the process of watching the movie, you may remember the feeling of deja vu. A woman is not discouraged in the face of difficulties, stepping on the soil under her feet and looking into the distance with determined eyes, it is "Gone with the Wind". Although it tells a completely different story, the female self-improvement spirit created by "A Generation of Pride" coincides with "Gone with the Wind" to some extent.
Diane Lane starred in the film to make "a generation of horses" has a certain autobiographical quality. I haven't seen her other movies. If the introduction about her is true, I believe that a person who is worth tens of millions at the age of 20 is comparable to a legend. When watching the movie, I always thought of Sandra Bullock, the heroine of "Weakness", and began to mistakenly think that the heroine was her. Thinking about being persistent and strong in such a maternity image, it shouldn't be easy, because it contains two kinds of beauty, rigid and soft. The fusion of the two contradictory beauties makes life full of tension. I have only seen this perfect image interpretation once in the movie. Sigourney Weaver's tough style in "Alien 2" is reconciled with her kind and motherly love for little girls, which is very humane. For me, Sigourney Weaver in Alien 2 would have been enough without Cameron's ups and downs and VFX. In "A Generation of Pride Horses", Diane Lane showed more of a woman who loves horse racing with determination and strength in the face of difficulties, although she also showed a good mother and wife when communicating with her four children and her husband. The image of the former is obvious in the latter, in contrast, the characters are not full to perfection.
It is a pity that the soundtrack of the film is not very good, and it is difficult to leave a deep impression, although there are still some remarkable places. The only thing I remember from the dub is the silent footsteps of the Secretarian walking into the racetrack, and everything is more silent than sound, as if a force in the silence is about to erupt like a volcano. Compared with the silence, whether it was the trainer, the owner or the audience, their nervousness and anticipation were more prominent. Knock, knock,... The clear footsteps of each step are transmitted straight forward under the director's picture composition intention, as if suggesting that Secretarian is about to grow unparalleled on the track, and a generation of arrogant horses has been born since then.
"The Pride of Horses" is a movie based on a true story. The subject matter is separated from us, and the subject is approaching us. As a movie, it writes an inspirational prototype to us. Although our life and environment are far from the America of the 1970s in the film, we can still be inspired and inspired by these spirits that cannot be changed by the changing times. "A generation of proud horses" tells us that stick to your beliefs, you can run like Secretariat.
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