War Horse
War Horse is a film about loyalty, love, and how what's
meant to be will always find a way. Albert is a teenage boy who comes from a
pretty poor family in England. He watches a colt be born and grow up with his
mother. Albert's father eventually purchases the colt and says he can help them
prepared and plant the land with produce to sell to be able to pay their rent.
Albert names the horse Joey and strikes up a special connection with him. After
much hard work and preparation, the vegetables are planted. A huge rain storm
comes along and destroys the entire crop, leaving Albert's family with nothing
to pay their rent. Without telling Albert, his father sells Joey to a man in
the military to take him to war. Before Joey leaves, Albert puts s pennant on
him that his father had earned from fighting in a previous war. Joey goes to
war with the General, who eventually gets killed while Joey survives. Joey gets
captured by German forces from a farm where a little girl was trying to hide
and keep him. Eventually he and his horse friend run off and while the other
one dies, Joey gets entangled in a barbed wire fence. In the midst of the
fighting, an English soldier waves the white flag and goes to try and save the
horse. A German soldier brings his wire cutters and comes to help. The two bond
over saving the horse and end up flipping a coin to see who gets to keep him;
the English man wins and takes him back to his camp. Albert, who is now old
enough and has joined the military, hears about this miracle horse and insists
that it must be Joey, so he starts using his owl calls that he trained him to
come to, and Joey comes. At this point, Albert was temporarily blinded due to a
gas attack. He tells the Sargent this is his horse and describes each marking
on him, even though he is blind. The horse appeared to have none of the white
socks or the white diamond on his head. Then, the soldiers realize he is just
covered in mud, so they wash him off and find out he has the exact markings
that Albert described. The war ends and only high ranked soldiers horses would
be shipped back to England, so Albert's friends gather what they thought was
enough money to buy Joey at auction. The little girl's grandfather insists that
he buys Joey in his granddaughter's memory and pays way more money than anyone
else had to offer. Albert talks to the grandfather, who shows him the pennant
that was on the horse when he first found him. Albert tells him the story about
it, and he realizes that the best place for Joey to be is with Albert. This is
a great story about getting through hard times and overcoming the odds. Though
no one else realized it, Albert and Joey were meant to be together. It was fate
or God's plan if you will.
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