Entertaining movie, but many inaccuracies from the horse training point of view.

al-ragsdale4

Overall I enjoyed the movie. In many modern movies, you must suspend your disbelief in order to fully enjoy the movie No exception here. I own a couple of horses and ride occasionally. Having had a broken pelvis in a riding accident several years ago, I'm perhaps a bit more aware of the potential for injury than the average citizen. I'd like to call out the dangerous training examples represented in the movie. One egregious example is the scene where the Mustang is first saddled. They should have shown at least a couple of weeks transpiring there, not a couple on hours as depicted. The movie paints somewhat ignorant and definitely dangerous training techniques, not utilized by most modern horse trainers.

Forget what you know about horses if you plan to enjoy the movie.

score 6/10

al-ragsdale4 20 April 2019

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