Over the holidays like most I went to the movies. Movies about horses range from the competitive race horse sagas like Seabiscuit to the coming-of-age tear-jerkers like National Velvet to companionship tales like The Black Stallion. But War Horse doesn't really fit into any of these genres. It seems to mimic the basic storyline of Black Beauty in that it follows the interaction of a horse with a number of different people, but it focuses on the lives of those people more than the life of the horse. It is as though the horse is the window through which the audience is able to see the struggles, tragedies and triumphs of these people. Yet that window, being a living being, has perspectives, feelings, fears, and affections that are reflected as well. It is as though the horse is the narrator, relating much of the story through his eyes, and this duality is what makes War Horse distinctive.
Not only is War Horse is a wonderful movie, beautifully shot with moving music; the kind that you feel in your chest, but it’s a melodrama, a war film, an allegory, a history lesson, an epic and best of all a family film that will remind you of the power in loving an animal.
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