Directed by Steven Speilberg
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568911/
I might hate you more, but I will never love you less.
Ted (Peter Mullan) goes to buy a plough horse, and ends up coming back with a fancy horse that too at a high price of 30 guinees, only because he couldn't see the landlord win. Angry with his husband's deed, Rose (Emily Watson) orders him to make this horse plough field sooner or she would send it back. Their son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine) who had seen the same horse in the opening sequence of the film, takes it on himself to train the horse, and he does succeed, also names him Joey. But, due to rains, the harvest gets destroyed resulting in Ted taking the horse to sell and gain money needed for family. Joey has a journey of meeting different people, who would treat him differently, he travels from British Cavalry to lifting gun machines from German camp, to a small girl Emilie (Celine Buckens) joy for a while.
I could feel the pain Joey had, when he was improperly used by some people in the name of just a animal. How he tried to keep the black horse going, helping it from getting killed thanks to all the training given by Albert.
Some of the best moments from the film would be, Albert making Joey plough the field, Emilie trying her best to make Joey jump.. it was such a funny sequence, and cute she looks when Joey fails. Joey helps the black horse put a tyre into his neck, which Albert taught him once.The English and German men on war, decide to hault for a brief time just to help Joey who is all wired up. For me this was the best scene of the film, and so brilliantly written and directed, it just takes your breath away to see two people on war helping each other to get Joey standing, and while doing so they have a nice conversation going too. The whistle by Albert to Joey in the penultimate sequence. And the good luck ribbon he finally hands over to his father, he once promised he would at right time.
The film is 2 hr 25 mins long, but that would worry you only if you fail to connect to the movie, which in turn means if you cant connect to the suffering of Joey, and the seperation Joey has from Albert for all the time.
Apart from Albert-Joey relationship, Joey goes on to have good relation with the British guy who boughts him from Ted. Later, he is served well by Emilie, and also a good guy on german gun machine tanks. There's one sequence where Joey runs from everything happening around him, all the gun-shots, fire, soldiers, he blindly runs, mainly for the loss of his friend black horse, the only one after Albert he was more close to.
The cinematography is superb, and special mention to that final scene, beautiful it is.
Jeremy Irvine as Albert is very good as a kid who wants Joey with him always, who trains him and makes him good enough to survive without him. Love all the sequences he has with Joey in the film.
Peter Mullan plays a grey shade role very well, he is essentially not a bad peson as his wife Rose says in one scene of the film. He just does things that would help the family survive.
Emily Watson was decent, with her dialogue sequences forming a major part of what the film is about, mainly the one where she discloses the real side of Ted to Albert.
Niels Arestrup was very good as Emilie grandfather, especially the scene where he tells how brave he is or isnt. And the final scene with Albert.
The rest of the cast gave decent performances, as there were a plenty of sub-plots in the film, whoever Joey went next to would become a new story to watch for, it may last for long or end quickly, as the destiny has planned for Joey.
Overall, War Horse works for me only of one reason, the way I could connect with Joey's sufferings. Speilberg keeps a war going in the backdrop, but in real the story keeps linked to the horse Joey, who gets named 'War Horse' later.
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568911/
I might hate you more, but I will never love you less.
Ted (Peter Mullan) goes to buy a plough horse, and ends up coming back with a fancy horse that too at a high price of 30 guinees, only because he couldn't see the landlord win. Angry with his husband's deed, Rose (Emily Watson) orders him to make this horse plough field sooner or she would send it back. Their son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine) who had seen the same horse in the opening sequence of the film, takes it on himself to train the horse, and he does succeed, also names him Joey. But, due to rains, the harvest gets destroyed resulting in Ted taking the horse to sell and gain money needed for family. Joey has a journey of meeting different people, who would treat him differently, he travels from British Cavalry to lifting gun machines from German camp, to a small girl Emilie (Celine Buckens) joy for a while.
I could feel the pain Joey had, when he was improperly used by some people in the name of just a animal. How he tried to keep the black horse going, helping it from getting killed thanks to all the training given by Albert.
Some of the best moments from the film would be, Albert making Joey plough the field, Emilie trying her best to make Joey jump.. it was such a funny sequence, and cute she looks when Joey fails. Joey helps the black horse put a tyre into his neck, which Albert taught him once.The English and German men on war, decide to hault for a brief time just to help Joey who is all wired up. For me this was the best scene of the film, and so brilliantly written and directed, it just takes your breath away to see two people on war helping each other to get Joey standing, and while doing so they have a nice conversation going too. The whistle by Albert to Joey in the penultimate sequence. And the good luck ribbon he finally hands over to his father, he once promised he would at right time.
The film is 2 hr 25 mins long, but that would worry you only if you fail to connect to the movie, which in turn means if you cant connect to the suffering of Joey, and the seperation Joey has from Albert for all the time.
Apart from Albert-Joey relationship, Joey goes on to have good relation with the British guy who boughts him from Ted. Later, he is served well by Emilie, and also a good guy on german gun machine tanks. There's one sequence where Joey runs from everything happening around him, all the gun-shots, fire, soldiers, he blindly runs, mainly for the loss of his friend black horse, the only one after Albert he was more close to.
The cinematography is superb, and special mention to that final scene, beautiful it is.
Jeremy Irvine as Albert is very good as a kid who wants Joey with him always, who trains him and makes him good enough to survive without him. Love all the sequences he has with Joey in the film.
Peter Mullan plays a grey shade role very well, he is essentially not a bad peson as his wife Rose says in one scene of the film. He just does things that would help the family survive.
Emily Watson was decent, with her dialogue sequences forming a major part of what the film is about, mainly the one where she discloses the real side of Ted to Albert.
Niels Arestrup was very good as Emilie grandfather, especially the scene where he tells how brave he is or isnt. And the final scene with Albert.
The rest of the cast gave decent performances, as there were a plenty of sub-plots in the film, whoever Joey went next to would become a new story to watch for, it may last for long or end quickly, as the destiny has planned for Joey.
Overall, War Horse works for me only of one reason, the way I could connect with Joey's sufferings. Speilberg keeps a war going in the backdrop, but in real the story keeps linked to the horse Joey, who gets named 'War Horse' later.
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