Equus

Equus

I am yours and you are mine.

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Release Date

10/16/1977

Runtime

137 mins

Overview

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A disturbing psychological inquiry into a shocking crime that peels back layers of repression and religious obsession, forcing both psychiatrist and viewer to confront uncomfortable truths about desire and normalcy.

Mood

UnsettlingTenseContemplativeMournful

Themes

ObsessionIdentityFaithFamilyComing apart

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Formalist

Structure

Framed flashback

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Graphic violenceSexual contentChild endangerment

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