That horse belongs only to you, not to me.

Adelle 2022-08-07 20:55:02

The story is actually pretty good and interesting. But the shooting is really not good, the lengthy and pretendingly obscure, it is really boring. I was sleepy, and almost fell asleep without holding it up. To be honest, Samsung is no more or less, the content is basically brain-filled, because the movie is only hints, but sometimes it feels a bit contradictory to follow the hints. Whether it’s literary art, hypocritical, or moaning without illness, it’s actually considered good. And I feel that after all, there is really no need to do such a thing (father killing), in the final analysis, I can only say that the heroine is really mentally ill. Because I didn't see what unforgivable crime was committed by my stepfather.

Including Amanda also said that I hope Lily will do this because she thinks it is right, not just because she feels upset for a while to vent her anger. Although Amanda plays an insensitive, unsentimental psychopath, Lily may actually be psychologically flawed. Because Amanda is at least willing to face her own problems, and Lily's disguise is too heavy, she doesn't even know that she is lying to herself, she thinks that the only option to gain freedom is to kill Mark or commit suicide, and there is no other choice.

I only remember the last letter roughly. The basic meaning is that the houses in the suburbs where the upper class originally lived are turned into ruins, and the horses are running here.

To some extent, they all gained the freedom they wanted. For Amanda, maybe Lily is the wild horse, which can't give her the grassland, but can give her the right to choose. The film is also ambiguously expressing a bond between women, like Amanda is in a crush on Lily, or has a certain affection. It turns out that it was because Amanda had a relationship with Lily when she was a child, and that was a purely beautiful riding companion. In the beginning, Amanda went to her house in the photo frame with only herself on horseback. It was a group photo but only herself, as if Lily deliberately left only herself and completely forgot about Amanda. Judging from this photo, the brains are wide open, it is possible that all of this was planned by Lily in the beginning.

So it is very likely that Amanda likes Lily to sacrifice for her like this. After all, Amanda only killed a horse and killed it out of empathy, while Lily killed a person. So the one who is really cold-blooded is actually Lily.

If Lily didn't read the letter in the end, it would prove that Lily has always been the psychopath with anti-social personality. After all, she really cares about Amanda. Even if Amanda drank the juice of the medicine, Lily would not blame her. This was the choice Amanda gave her. And she finally chose to blame Amanda, just like Lily's stepdad Mark said, the existence of other people in her mind is like a maid, only serving her.

What she wants is not only freedom, but also because she wants to live what she imagined and have an upper class life. Amanda said she despised Mark because Mark is rich, but in fact she just despises Mark. It’s like a fantasy in a spa. At first, I mistakenly thought that she actually had some unspeakable feelings for her stepdad, because the stepdad did not like herself to make such extreme behaviors, but then I discovered that The essence of fantasy is to despise her stepdad as an animal lower than her own.

In the end, her cry may be a real emotional expression, or it may be a test whether she has learned the skill of pretending to cry.

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Thoroughbreds quotes

  • [last lines]

    Amanda: [Amanda's voice reading her letter to the audience] I'm Honeymooner, and I'm dying. And I rise out of my body, and I'm staring down at our whole suburb, and time is speeding up. And I see generations of people coming, and going, and building bigger houses. And then eventually... the people start spending more and more of their time staring at their smartphones. And soon enough, they're forgetting to clean their houses, or mow their lawns, or eat. And eventually all the houses rot and collapse, and the people disappear, vanishing completely into the Internet. And then... and this is the really beautiful part, the horses take over. And the whole suburb is just beautiful thoroughbred stallions with no owners and no memory of owners and no way of knowing how expensive they are, just mating and galloping through the ruins.

    Tim: What did it say?

    Lily: I don't know. I just threw it away.

  • Tim: You know, the thing about this town is, the sawdust smells fantastic. But you are still in a hamster cage.