The Black Stallion
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• Letterboxed
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 17 October, 1979
DVD Release : 10 September, 1997 |
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The Black Stallion Customer Reviews
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'if you can ride that horse, you can have that horse'
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So runs the great, symbolic, even prophetic, advice given by a father to his son shortly before the father's unexpected death, in the form of a story about Alexander the Great.
The son is a 10 year old boy who will go on to tame a wild horse while both are castaways on a deserted island.
Though with very little dialogue, the first 45 minutes of this film are simply awesome; they set a precedent which are very hard to follow. In short: the son lives up to his father's advice while on the island, with the ultimate result of saving the life both of himself and of the horse; along the way, giving his all, the boy also realizes a union with nature which can perhaps and might best be described as creation--or at least the horse--becoming the boy's surrogate father. Upon his rescue and return to civilization, the boy soon realizes that this "ownership" he attained of the horse while on the island is called into question--as are his somewhat asocial coping skills he developed while living on the island. The boy thus shifts his attention to finding the place of the horse in the world and thus his own at the same time. This takes the form of training the horse as a racehorse, and himself as a jockey--with the help of a new found friend.
The transition from the island to civilization is a bit jolting to the audience; at moments it even feels like a different film; but it is done with suitable humor, and merely replicates in the audience the same experience of the boy.
In the end, the boy succeeds in being "alone" with his horse while being "in civilization" at the same time. The film comes full circle; the closing credits have some of the most beautiful scenes in the movie.
A very inspiring, very moving and very beautiful film. A must see for anyone who likes horses, nature--or even people. |
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