war horse film review

War Horse Film Review

The film ‘War Horse’ is a fictional type movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the released novel written by Michael Morpurgo. The novel is published on 1982. While the film is realesed in December 25, 2011 (USA). The movie has a 146 minutes duration. Base on the novel, the main character is Joey and Albert. Joey is a horse, while Albert Naracott is played by Jeremy Irvine in the movie. Most of the place where the story in the film happens was in UK.

The movie is about Joey, the horse that travels from country to country for war purposes. Joey will meet a lots of other characters. That time, The World war, makes the people to give everything they have for the army. This also makes Ted Naracott, need to sell his horse, Joey to Captain Nicholls.

War Horse is a great film, Steven Spielberg use different people perspectives in the movie, he uses many different characters that is close with Joey. From Albert, Captain Nicholls, Michael and Gunther, Emilie and her Grandfather, Higleman, and also Colin. The music of the film is mostly composed by John Williams. The characters were played by Jeremy Irvine as Albert Naracott, Peter Mullan as Ted, Emily Watson as Rose, Tom Hiddleston as Captain Niicholls, and many more. Most of the settings is in UK, they create the props and put it on the land, so the film’s actually not shooted from many countries in europe. They just take the elements and put it on the place so that the place will look like the specific place they wanted to have for the movie. The costume is organized by Johanna Johnston, most of the costume is an old outfit. Most of the movie use the medium shot, so that the body of the actors can be seen. Sometimes the movie also use low level shot so that the person in the scene will look strong.

For me, War Horse is a good movie, the movie shows us about bravery, loyalty, friendship and love. The war’s atmosphere can be felt very real. The Music makes us what we have to feel during the movie. Costumes are fantastic, the movie can be felt so real is also because of the costumes that really sticks with the settings that time during the World War I era. So, I would recommend this movie to be watched, for family, friends and others.