My family and I went to see this
movie yesterday. We found it to be a film of incredible beauty and pathos. It
shows, in a unique way, the suffering that millions endured during WWI,
including, not least, the infantrymen who fought in the trenches of France,
like C. S. Lewis.
The story is based upon a
children’s book, later turned into a stage-play, written by British author,
Michael Morpurgo. According to Wikipedia, “After meeting a World War I veteran
who drank in his local pub Iddesleigh and who had been in the Devon Yeomanry working
with horses, Morpurgo began to think of telling the story of the universal
suffering of the Great War through a horse’s viewpoint, but was unsure that he
could do it. He also met another villager, Captain Budgett, who had been in the
Cavalry in the Great War, and a third villager who remembered the army coming
to the village to buy horses. Morpurgo thanks the three men in the dedication
of the book, naming them as Albert Weeks, Wilfred Ellis and Captain…