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Not a bad film but kinda long and improbable thus 1 and 1/2 stars off as well as using the"War horse"like a "Babel"sort of link between various peoples stories within the WW1 years.Still the film released in 2011 and running 146 minutes shows again how director
Steven Spielberg can manipulate any of us to at least one tear.For me the real value of the film is the hope people will again investigate WW1. We owe to the souls who lived and died during it.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary is below.I highly recommend for the historical value.
Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal but his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey,the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where,after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found,caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed,due to a bizarre truce. He is returned behind British lines where Albert,now a private,has been temporarily blinded by gas but still recognises his beloved Joey. However as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together? Written by don @ minifie-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrpsM3VOAI
Steven Spielberg can manipulate any of us to at least one tear.For me the real value of the film is the hope people will again investigate WW1. We owe to the souls who lived and died during it.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary is below.I highly recommend for the historical value.
Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal but his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey,the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where,after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found,caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed,due to a bizarre truce. He is returned behind British lines where Albert,now a private,has been temporarily blinded by gas but still recognises his beloved Joey. However as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together? Written by don @ minifie-1
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