07-01-2019, 05:41 AM
Prison inmate achieves personal growth by taming wild mustang. It's the Horse Whisperer with Ketamine and shanks.
The film is relentlessly grim. I'm sure I was supposed to be uplifted by the powerful message of the film but watching hardcore incarceration is never fun. Plus, it started with the Mustang roundup and the note at the beginning saying the horses were going to be trained or euthanized.
The big theme for both the prisoner Roman and the Mustang Marquis was that they needed to tame their demons to be useful or to relate to society. Yes, Roman and Marquis form a special bond but it came off as plot driven rather organic. There was a weird subplot with Roman's cell mate and stealing Ketamine but the cell mate mumbled so much I didn't know why Roman agreed to steal the drugs.
Bruce Dern plays the cantankerous leader of the Mustang Training program, tough but fair in that Dern way.
After all the hard core anger and emotional swings, the ending was very Disneyesque in many respects.
The film is relentlessly grim. I'm sure I was supposed to be uplifted by the powerful message of the film but watching hardcore incarceration is never fun. Plus, it started with the Mustang roundup and the note at the beginning saying the horses were going to be trained or euthanized.
The big theme for both the prisoner Roman and the Mustang Marquis was that they needed to tame their demons to be useful or to relate to society. Yes, Roman and Marquis form a special bond but it came off as plot driven rather organic. There was a weird subplot with Roman's cell mate and stealing Ketamine but the cell mate mumbled so much I didn't know why Roman agreed to steal the drugs.
Bruce Dern plays the cantankerous leader of the Mustang Training program, tough but fair in that Dern way.
After all the hard core anger and emotional swings, the ending was very Disneyesque in many respects.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm