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I saw it at the Lagoon in the trendy Uptown area of Minneapolis last night. It was very good.
I'm curious though. What did you guys think of them deciding not to show Barbaro's injury?
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I thought that very appropriate, myself - no reason to show it, and the way they clouded out with just the voice-over of the pull-up stayed true to the purpose of the movie, I thought.
The whole strength of the movie, for me, was showing how all these different people - trainer for royalty, ex-Olympian equestrian, trainer coming back from paralysis, small-time guy in New York, etc - they each get a horse with a chance in their barns.
That's luck right there, and you can see that all of them know it and are pretty amazed they have been dealt a chance. They also know all the training skill in the world still has to combine with fate and luck to get to the Derby.
And Barbaro showed that even winning the Derby doesn't take away being subject to the nightmares fate can dish out.
I got emotional several places in the movie! <g> Whether you like these trainers or horses or not. Doesn't matter. Watching Frank Amonte, with his dreams of his own stable, talking about giving his children more than he had, giving his daughter riding lessons even though they were too expensive ... watching that all come to naught in a few missteps by A of Troy - you could see it in his face everything that meant to him, his future, his business, his family and his daughter's riding lessons, etc. Geesh, you had to feel for the guy!