Taglines: People are the ultimate spectacle.
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? movie storyline. Gloria (Jane Fonda) and Robert (Michael Sarrazin) are two desperate people who have lost their hopes in life, consumed by the crisis in the 1930s. One day, Gloria, dreaming of becoming a famous actress, and Robert, who lives in Hollywood and whose efforts to become a director fail, intersect. These two desperate young people decide to join the dance marathon. In this inhumane contest where couples must dance non-stop to win, Gloria and Robert will not give up this competition as a last hope in their hopeless lives, and they will try to survive despite the brutality of the competition.
One of the most important works of Sydney Pollack’s filmography, Horses Shoots, is a traumatic drama that shows the brutality of the capitalist system and has been nominated for nine Oscars. Couples who end up hoping to endure the dance, but death is the one who spends all the power. They throw old dying couples in the trash. They hit injured racehorses.
Today’s people is going to a desperate run towards the goods (as a slave of self). Neither a threat nor a counselor can turn him. Like a butterfly throwing itself into the light, into the fire. The odd situation is this: He does not know the meaning and result of this move that will cause his death. In magical happiness, her eyes shine, embracing what she has succeeded in achieving. That item would be replaced by another item the next day. Let it be. The principality of a day is principality.
US director Sydney Pollack has a famous film, you know, “Shoot Horses.” The film made in 1969 attracted a lot of attention and became a legend in the critique of the capitalist system.
Capitalism is whipping us: “Dance, dance, play”. We think we’re gonna win, we’re wrong. This dance has no end.
Nowadays, you will be a prisoner or a tyrant.
Ten percent happy minority, which seizes ninety percent of the world’s income, is tyrant. The rest is prisoner.
When will mankind wake up from this intoxication?
When will he know he didn’t start the wars himself?
Those who say peace should not throw the bed first. Let her get out of that run, stop dancing. As a matter of fact, he never gets that bed. Do not forget; The day comes “They shoot the horses”.
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Conrad, Bruce Dern, Severn Darden, Allyn Ann McLerie, Jacquelyn Hyde, Madge Kennedy
Screenplay by: James Poe
Production Design by: Harry Horner
Cinematography by: Philip H. Lathrop
Film Editing by: Fredric Steinkamp
Costume Design by: Donfeld
Set Decoration by: Frank R. McKelvy
Music by: Johnny Green
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Release Date: December 10, 1969
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