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The British film "HorsePit" tells the story of the United States.

Unlike director Andrew Hagrid's "45th Anniversary," which is a film that focuses on the marriage of the elderly, this time, he brought a 15-year-old into our sights. Looking at the title, it is related to horses, yes, teenagers and horse racing, is a main line of the movie, but this is not a clichéd movie of how teenagers become horse racers, from the external form, this is the journey of teenagers to find home and find love; from the inner spiritual point of view, this is the process of promotion of teenagers from weak to strong.

There is no doubt that the teenagers Charlie and Saima Pitt in the film are in a weak position from the beginning. For Charlie, the mother ran away and grew up with his father; the father had several girlfriends, including a married wife; the aunt simply cut off the news because she was not accustomed to what the father did; the single-parent family created Charlie's lonely, introverted, and sensitive personality; for Pete, despite the breed, it was an injured old horse, and its only end in the racecourse where the victory or defeat was determined was to be sold by the owner and then slaughtered. The director let such a poor pair of teenagers meet the horse and establish a relationship of pity for each other.

In the movie, we see the teenager approaching the horse, petting the horse, showing a kind of excitement when walking the horse, and also seeing the horse making an affectionate response to the teenager shaking his head and tail. In the scene of the teenager leading the horse, in the background of the distant mountains, the wilderness, and the desert, only Charlie confides in Pete: what his mother looked like in his memory, how he and his aunt counted the stars in the sky by the campfire, how happy his friends had, and how he did not want people to see his unhappy appearance... Here, the horse is not an animal, it is his friend, his relative, his dependence, his pillar, the sustenance of his soul, the comfort of his spirit.

Teenager Charlie longs for home and love, in the movie, there are three times he took out a photo with his mother when he was a child, indicating that the image of his mother lingered, and in the three scenes with his father - with his father and female colleagues, drinking and eating and talking about the past, in the hospital, you can see that although the father and son are not rich, the relationship is still very harmonious, as the father said: "I am nothing, but I like to be with you." After his father was attacked and died by the husband of a female colleague, the teenager decided to find his aunt no matter what, and he would not hesitate to lead his horse through the desolate northwest of the United States. Because in his mind, his aunt's home represents stability, family affection, and his final destination.

The death of his father was a blow to Charlie, and he never imagined that his beloved horse would also suffer an accident. First, because of injuries that affected the results of the race, the owner of the horse called it "bag" and "garbage", and the jockey said to Charlie: "You can't have feelings for horses, you can't treat them as pets." "If a horse isn't fast enough, it doesn't deserve to be a racehorse." In desperation, in order to save Pete's life, Charlie had to "hijack" the horse, but in the end, in the wilderness, Pete was frightened by the motorcycle, broke free of the reins, and was hit by the car, which was another blow, making the teenager want to cry without tears.

It seems to be a sad movie, and the actor who plays Charlie, Charlie Plummer, born in 1999, adds an inherent tenacity to the role, and the people and things that teenagers encounter on the way to the wanderings— cruel and unstable— are all reminders of the fact that a stable, quiet, peaceful home is so important and indispensable. There was a fat girl who was taunted by her grandfather for being fat, and Charlie asked, "Why did you let him treat you like this?" The girl said: "When you have nowhere else to go, you feel like you're stuck." "Young Charlie doesn't need such a trapped home, he longs for a more free and loving home. And when he finally found his aunt, asked three questions, and got a positive answer, Charlie's heart landed. He asked, "Can I stay here for a while?" The aunt replied, "I won't let you go anywhere, you can live as long as you want." He asked, "If I really lived, could I go to school here?" The aunt replied, "You have to go to school." He asked, "If I go to jail, can I still come back here?" The aunt replied, "You won't go to jail, and even then you can come back." ”

Young Charlie, while finding a home, also becomes strong because of everything he has experienced. The ending song sings, "I am a mountain, I am a tree, I am a gust of wind... If someone asks me who I am... I am a giant, I am a falcon, I am a lion..." (Liu Weixin)