Equus
- sombre
- extreme
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / psychological, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Our read · Equus (1977) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · psychological · stage entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Equus
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