getting all teary over that War Horse film

Here's another update- not sure what to write about. I've been wasting a lot of time watching films and tv series, perhaps i should do a review of a few of them?

War Horse film- or Cheval de Guerre in French

I was quite chuffed to get to see this at an avant-premier, before the rest of France. Had to pay fifteen euros and half of that went to charity. It was dubbed into French, but i don't think it lost any of the original charm because of that.
The film begins by introducing us to a poor farming family in Devon who are struggling to make ends meet. The father has a bit of a drink problem, and the mother is all worn out with hard-work. The father recklessly bids on a handsome brown horse and ends up blowing all their money. So far, so fairy-tale formulaic.
 The horse is somewhat uselsess because it is young and completely untrained. It will take a lot of work to make it ready for ploughing the fields. The mother is angry and tries to get her husband to take the horse back and get their money back, but alas, their startlingly good looking and sensitive son has already fallen in love with it, and sets about breaking it in, with firmness and compassion for the animal.
It is clear that they have a special bond, but alas, we see all this swept aside by the destructive inevitability of war which comes to wreak havoc on the best laid plans.
We follow the horse as it is sold and taken to France, to fight in the first world war as a War Horse. It's owners change, and it is cast about from place to place in the turmoil of war- being owned by the British cavalry division, a couple of deserting German brothers, a little French girl and her grandfather, and so on.
You'll have to watch it if you want to find out if the horse ever gets re-united with it's original owner- the farmer's son who has never been able to forget his horse, and who signed up to become a soldier partly motivated by the desire to find his equine friend.
I would say it's definitely worth a watch, and is interesting from a historical point of view, as well as for the story which is gripping and epic, as grand and sweeping as the beautiful Devon countryside. You might end up sobbing as well, I've heard that the film had this effect on some people. Not me though, I don't cry over no films.