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Running with the horse?


I bring this up only because there are so many great posts on the other aspects of the film.

-He is keeping up with that horse in bare feet? Come now.
-Also, I found it touching when the horse turns around to visit/befriend him.

Any thoughts.

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It just struck me as a very childish thing to do, and I mean that in a good way. A little boy would do that -- see a horse and want to race it. I don't know of any adults who'd do it, really.

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I think it's something that a confident athlete with a playful streak might do, and Lancaster was certainly a confident athlete. It was a cool scene.

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