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Equus

1977 · 137 min

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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.

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Appeals to viewers drawn to psychologically probing mysteries about repression, troubled desire, and the uneasy boundary between illness and individuality.

Tone
cerebral, bleak, eerie
Payoff
revelation, unease
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
non-linear
Themes
mental illness, repression, religious guilt, identity, conformity
Setting
contemporary 1970s, rural English stables and psychiatric institutions

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