Indian Horse

Absolutely amazing movie ! Shines a much needed light. On the traum caused by residential schools.

I wanted to be a story about a boy that used hockey to rise up out of the terrible circumstances he was dealt as a child. What it was, a story of a boy that loved hockey, was transcendant playing it and threw it all away succumbing to his childhood miseries. Sullen, uncommunicative, drowning in his anguish never finding any relief in the love and friendship many extended to him. A cliche as a native ending up a drunk and naturally if the Catholic church is involved the priest that helped him get his start in hocky had to be sexually abusing him as well. In the end this story used hockey as the hook but was mostly a cliche. Informative maybe but with a lot of cheap, predictable plot gadgets as well.

A hard but honest look at the racist boarding school system. Very well done.

Amazing movie, quite depressing but shot very well, with a completely unexpected twist.

I enjoyed this movie overall and the story it told about the native Indians and the hardships they faced being merged into so-called civilized society with the white man. I'm not sure if this was based on a true story or not but it was a shame that this Indian hockey player didn't reach his full potential in the NHL due to his own teammates not fully supporting him or having his back on the ice.

While it may not have fully lived up to the source material, "Indian Horse" is more timely and moving than ever. Brilliantly using a nation's love for hockey as way to speak hard truths about the darker aspects of our history, this film resists a Hollywood happy ending while still offering genuine hope.

Don't listen to the few reviewers who didn't like the movie. It was very good. I felt the plight and injustice.

Based on Richard Wagamese's 6th novel, The Indian Horse follows the life of a young First Nations boy from Northern Ontario in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Saul Indian Horse, who survives Canada's Indian residential school system to become a star ice hockey player after being stripped away from his family and cultural heritage. However, the violence and abuse from his past still haunts him today and affects his life and hockey career. This movie brings to light the ongoing effects of cultural genocide and how the intergenerational trauma that survivors of residential schools face, continue to affect them throughout their lives. Overall, I give this movie a 5/5 for the quality and the accuracy of some of the shared experiences of survivors.

An interesting piece of history, but the main actor seemed frozen in place with a fixed expression on his face. Perhaps that was supposed to be part of the reality, but it made for rather boring viewing.

This movie was one of the most important films in Indian Country, accurately capturing the unknown, forgotten but recent history of our Native peoples. Every person should watch this film. Rocked to the core by this film. I couldn't possibly see how one could label this movie as aggressive when it is only portraying the truth of many of our families stories. The aggression is not in the script but in Canadian government