Reviews

War Horse begins with a disneyesque feel of boy meets horse, boy falls in love with horse, horse and boy part unwillingly etc, etc. But that would put a little too soft a light on this film. Around 10 million horses died during 'The Great War', a million of those were from the UK. 'So What?' you might say, 'nearly a million men died too'. Yes of course. But they have their own films and expressions. This film is a not for them. It's for the horses that supported them through hell and back and, under the main story, it suggests a statement about our historical bond with these animals and the severing of it, partly due to the technological revolution that the war demanded from society.