War Horse

In all honestly, I was starting to feel really pessimistic about this class because I didn't really like any of the movies that we started the class off watching.  In a sense I dreaded coming to class because I didn't feel as though any of the films really captured my attention and I felt as though I didn't really understand any of the films or perhaps just couldn't keep up with them because they bored me so much.   However, this is the movie that changed my outlook on this class entirely.  I loved this movie from beginning to end.  Although still a movie about war, I feel like it is much different that the war movies we have watched in the past.  I say this because I feel as though our last few movies were just over dramatized battle scenes without a strong plot and story line.  I feel like they failed to keep me motivated to watch them because they focused more on the battle scenes than the story itself.  However, this movie really did the exact opposite.  I fell in love with how this movie was set up.  The character development was so strong and the story line wasn't rushed which I felt like the other films we have seen tended to lack.   It was a movie in which I felt like I connected with the characters- which I think is why I was so intrigued by it.  I always find the battle and war scenes boring but I think this film did a great job with that particular part.  It wasn't just a bunch of hired people running on a field- I felt as though the war scenes were much more authentic and realistic.  I liked that it didn't show just a bunch of people shooting at each other- I liked that it was sort of a "behind the scenes", if you will, look at what goes on in the war.  The movie honestly didn't make me cry once- which might make me sound awful because one is expected to cry during a movie like this but honestly this movie didn't make me sad at all.  When the movie ended I was quite shocked because I spent the whole movie waiting for the moment where I was supposed to cry.  I didn't think this movie was "depressing" at all I thought it was an amazing film with an amazing story line and an amazing ending.