Western cowboy movies seem to have become a representative of American genre films.
The yellow sand and the brilliant sky reflect the barren and brilliant scenery, and the cowboys wearing cowboy hats and riding high horses gallop across the grassland.
They may have drunk too much wine, and they may not be able to speak at length, or they may be silent, but they have a tiger sniffing the roses,
But what remains unchanged is their tenderness and respect for the horses, their eternal passion and dependence on the desert and the steppe, and their eternal pursuit of freedom.
Rough as the texture of an old newspaper, about freedom, salvation, friendship, courage, growth, which is related to each of us throughout our lives and has always been inspiring.
The story of such a western cowboy is often a journey of a horse, a knight and a companion for a goal.
Like "Earth Thunder" created by the Coen brothers that Red Face Show once recommended for everyone, it is a standard Western cowboy movie.
A one-eyed old knight who is always drunk and full of gibberish and loves to complain,
A stubborn, mature, brave and tenacious girl who is bent on avenging her father:
One old and one young, they rode their respective horses to gallop in the yellow sand of the western world, and the old knight taught the little girl to grow up with rough and iron tenderness.
The little girl's strong justice and indomitable spirit make the decadent knight relive the charm of humanity again.
Under the starry sky of the Night Galaxy, the two men and one horse ran all night to tell stories and sublimate the spirit of the Western Cowboy,
Even if the world and fate are full of tribulations and injustices, the cowboys will never accept defeat,
The rough and decadent old knight is full of complaints and pessimism along the way,
So at the last moment, when he desperately ran on his horse to rescue the little girl, it was resonant and the love between people that exceeded blood relations, which also made us particularly moved.
Today's western cowboy films are still constantly exploring new meanings that this genre can carry on the basis of retaining the film style.
It can be small and big, such as the "Knight" introduced by the Red Face Show some time ago,
How a wounded knight, who has been destroyed by dreams and hopes at the turning point of his life, how to rediscover himself.
It can also be poetic and epic,
This is also a movie that the Red Face Show is going to introduce to you today, "HorsePitt",
A teenager, a horse, an epic journey!
The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Willie Valentine,
The story revolves around Charlie, a 15-year-old boy, who sets out to find his lost aunt and strange home, and his only "partner" is HorsePitt.
"HorsePit" scored 7.7 points on Douban, 7.2 points on IMDB,
Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness rating of 92% and popcorn 74%.
From a plot point of view, "HorsePit" is a simple to almost boring movie,
A teenager without a mother and a father depend on each other, and his relationship with his father is equal and friendly, and he is close to his brother and friend,
But just 15 years old, he still has to face the loneliness, confusion, self-search, and ultimate belonging on the road to growth.....
Strictly speaking, this is not a completely Western cowboy movie,
It is more in the western style, cowboy spirit into a kind of juvenile confusion and a kind of highway loneliness, a sense of searching.
This 15-year-old boy named Charlie lives in a small town with his father.
His father likes to date different women, but is kind and warm to him, and they get along as if they were two simple and intimate teenagers.
But Charlie has lost the company of his mother since he was a child,
In the process of growing up, it is also difficult to avoid the confusion, searching, longing for money and seeking their own physical and emotional belonging.
His first job was to help a eccentric but principled racecourse master.
It was his first step toward a man, and from a young boy who could only rely on the change given by his father to buy food to fill his stomach and do nothing all day, Charlie first tasted the meaning of being a man.
Even the work of shoveling horse dung, leading horses, feeding water, stopping trucks, twisting tires, etc., made Charlie realize that the most important step for a boy to grow into a man, or a child to grow into an adult: to earn money.
Unlike the setting of "experiencing loss and destruction" that grows up in many works, the treatment in "Saima Pitt" is very realistic but also very moving.
Charlie's performance made many people think of themselves when they earned their first pot of gold,
Extremely serious and dedicated, fine immersion firmly into every detail, even if strange and shy, but also hard to the scalp.
After earning our first money, we feel the satisfaction that we can't feel no matter how much money we earn in the future.
We were anxious to treat ourselves with the proceeds of this labor, and even felt the hope of life, and gulped down the fries and hamburgers on the plate.
We were still in a hurry to prove ourselves to our parents, and Charlie walked shyly to his father with a bag full of food and a look of waiting for praise.
A shy and confident teenager with a duck-tongue hat, a wide T-shirt, and a smile,
In the lush and soft sunshine of the early morning, the father could not hide his smile and deliberately pressed the boy's duck tongue hat and played with him.
Under the first rays of the morning sun, all this is bright and warm like the past life of our ordinary people,
However, movies always have moments of momentary turning, just as life often rises and falls,
Charlie's father died overnight, and he must find a way to survive on his own, not only to find a home for himself, but also for the spiritual home of a child who has lost both parents and no one cares.
In fact, it is like our long and ordinary life,
In life, "all I have is luck, what I lose is life", even if my father and mother love me so much, they may not be able to accompany us to the end of life;
Even though we once had incredibly warm moments with our friends, we could only grit our teeth and walk alone when we were in distress.
Charlie, who has nothing, is difficult to integrate with society, is simply lacking in love and is extremely determined, finally embarks on a road of "searching",
In essence, "SaiMa Pitt" is the same as the essence of the road movie narration in the tramp novel and film work in the literary works.
This protagonist who has nothing, a man leading a horse on the road to find his only aunt he can turn to,
This journey is like our lives, we spend our whole lives just to find emotions and a sense of belonging in life, but all this we are looking for will eventually leave us.....
But these people and things that have accompanied us through a journey can also affect who we eventually become, and even influence us to become a part of us.
The old man who taught Charlie to fall in love with a horse trainer is sold to Mexico for slaughter because Charlie's beloved horse Pitt is old;
A female knight who says that she truly loves horse racing but is discriminated against because she is a woman can break the rules and win the championship at the same time;
The brother who accepted him got drunk in the middle of the night and took his money, and the two men who took Charlie with him, just to be able to ride a horse of Charlie,
Yet Charlie said, "I've never ridden a horse, I don't think they should be ridden." ”
Even the horse that had been silently accompanying him eventually broke free of the reins and was hit by a truck and killed on the road.
It seems that on the road of life, everyone will run counter to the way they appear,
As Diane in Battle of the Bones says:
"No one in this world is black and white, and people can lie while telling the truth."
An old cowboy who loves horses but kills horses for profit, a brother who is both righteous and cruel, a female knight who hates the injustice of the rules and wins with injustice.....
Animals, women, friends, bosses, co-workers... These people of all kinds appeared in Charlie's life and eventually left,
And this boy who seems to have experienced everything, but his appearance is still young and sunny, has long been no longer the self he was at the beginning of the story.
The end of the movie is very beautifully handled,
The film begins with Charlie running carefree at his doorstep, just to drain the restlessness and energy of adolescence;
And at the end of the movie, Charlie, who has experienced everything, runs on the windy road in front of his aunt's house,
He turned around, still that youthful face, but already showed the edges and corners of this man with a story.
Charlie is like us, in the process of searching all the way, all the way lost, and finally accompanied by his own side is still a familiar and strange self.