The horse in the movie "Black Horse" is an Arabian horse. Because of this status, the background music in the film has a wonderful Arabic flavor. At the beginning, a passenger ship sank, and a boy and a pure black Arabian horse were swept onto an uninhabited island by the waves. Then came the first part of thirty-five minutes, a garden of Eden with only boys and horses. There is no language in this part, but it is the most perfect part of the whole film. At the beginning of the game, the black Arabian horse had a violent temperament that was difficult to tame. Several people could barely get it into the cabin. The boy looked weak under the protection of his father. Now on this closed and uninhabited island, the boy and the horse are gradually showing their true nature. I believe that the director also intends to explore the relationship between man and nature, so the violent Arabian horse was conquered by the bravery and kindness of the boy, from initial fear to help, and finally on the beach covered with sunset, man and motor reached a kind of elegant harmony. . The boy rode on a horse, opened his arms, and galloped across the long deserted coast as in the myth. Whether it's lighting, photography, or soundtrack, this part can be called a paradise.
Then the Garden of Eden is over. For horses, uninhabited islands are paradise, but people have the instinct to seek stability, the desire for home, and the need for group identification. The boy and the horse returned to human society. The second part is about forty minutes long. It is said that this unruly black horse has disappeared from the backyard of the boy's house. Later, he met an equestrian coach who trained the horse and the boy to become a racer. And get the right to participate through extraordinary channels. There is a set of shots of a black horse passing through neat residential areas, through a street full of cars, passing through a factory lined with chimneys. If the director took this photo, it might be another "Red Desert". . But who can escape from his own time except the master? The 52nd Oscar winner in 1980 was "The Kramers", best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, best adapted screenplay... That was the era of family ethics films, even " Apocalypse Now only won awards for photography and sound effects. This is often the case. If you follow the trend, even if you are very good and work hard, you can only be second-rate and third-rate. "Black Horse" is not unnecessarily delicate in dealing with the emotional relationship between horses, boys and equestrian coaches. (The most common fans also know that animals and children are the most difficult to shoot. Some people even say that this film is better than Li Ang’s juvenile school. One rank higher). But this is useless. At this time and in this trend, "The Cramers" cannot be surpassed.
The conquering of horses, the harmonious coexistence of people and horses, the awkward status of horses in modern society, and even the discussion of the relationship between horses and boys and equestrian coaches all suggest that the director Carol Ballard has the ability to shoot A higher level of film literacy. But back to that sentence, except for the master, who can jump out of his own time? ! In the more than twenty minutes of the climax of the film, the film was completely reduced to a general work of that era: the boy magically became an excellent racer, and the black horse bleeds and beats the human money. Everyone smiled with satisfaction at the piled up games. The director also superimposed the scenes of the boy triumphantly at the racetrack and the gallop at the beach of Eden in the past, which confirmed the human utilitarian perspective of this movie.
Maybe it shouldn't be exacting. If this movie is classified as a children's movie, it would be a good fairy tale. When we were twelve or thirteen years old, we also had the dream of Yiqi Juechen, and we had a wonderful non-human partner to accompany us and spend a good time. Sometimes it is a loyal shepherd dog, sometimes it is a Doraemon who loves to eat gongs, or the dinosaur Denver, Zheng Yuanjie’s Phantom, Knight Rider or something. But we can't live in fairy tales forever. Life is like this. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves that there are no boys in this world, and there is no such thing as a black horse galloping on an uninhabited beach.
2015.10.13
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