Luck

[Merlinsky]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elayne...b_1383481.html

Further evidence of the PETA/AHA turf war. This woman's a comedian involved with PETA, but takes care not to mention it. There's a woman in the comments named Liz O'Connell who says the following:

As a professional horsewoman, I did not like nor approve of the racing scenes in "Luck". In the ones that I watched, I could see the horses being pulled around by their open mouths, their heads were up and backs inverted, horses don't run this way -- on the track or in nature. Nothing beautiful there. They were crudely choreographed. I was uncomfortable watching those scenes, knowing the horses were off-balance and could not understand why that kind of action was permitted during filming.

On the other-hand, Horse You See, a short film entered in 2012 PBS Online Film Festival is an antidote to AHA-sanctioned programming. I talk it about in my post "The Pure Essence of a Horse" on the Huffington Post -- the Navajo language with English subtitles, the star Ross the horse-poet, his human and the background birdsong. All bring a gentle mindfulness as we watch and listen to Ross explain "This is how we who are horses, know ourselves." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-o/...b_1382749.html.

Thoughts?