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Significance of the opening scene? (spoilerish)

posted 13 years ago by WarpedRecord
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Can someone connect the dots from the opening scene of Brady as a grandfather, having to put his grandson's horse out of its misery, to the rest of the film?

I assume the war scenes were a flashback kindled by his relationship with the young Hungarian who helped him escape but he was not able to save. So are we to see parallels between the horse he kills and the boy who died?

Or is the horse he shoots the same one he rode to safety 30 years earlier? He says to his grandson something like: "He wasn't there for you — you were there for him."

[–] polexia 13 years ago

It's the same horse. The horse's name is Aranka and remember at the beginning, the grandson is saying "Aranka get up" or something to that effect. That's what makes Brady relive his time in Hungary where he was given the horse etc.

I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.

[–] WarpedRecord 13 years ago

Thanks very much. I missed the boy's mention of the horse's name at the beginning. That setup makes sense for the film that follows, which is basically a long flashback. Thanks again.