MY Favorite Road Film
My favorite road film is Hidalgo.It is not what would usually be thought of as a road film because the road is not a highway it is instead a path on a vast desert of sand. I like it partly because it is about a horse and I love horses but also because of the message in it. The journey being taken affects not only the man making the journey but also the horse he is riding. Hidalgo, the horse, is a mustang and this breed has been looked down upon and slaughtered for centuries. In the middle east where the movie takes place the blood lines of horses are highly prized and being a mustang Hidalgo has no wonderful blood lines and therefore is looked down upon but by the end of the movie he has proven his worth with stamina, cunning, and a will to live and win that even the other riders in the race are forced to admire. The man in the journey, Frank Hopkins, learns to accept his Native American heritage and to be who he is, even if he is half Native American half white. He learns to stay true to who he is and discovers that doing so does not necessarily mean that he will fail or lose.