Today Beetle and I headed to Brandon for a movie and dinner out ... She had decided on The Waterhorse as the movie and Sushi as the meal ... So mid-afternoon we headed off to catch a afternoon matinee and dinner to follow ...We had a great time ... the time with just the two of us was a gift ... and the movie was wonderful.
I won't say it was a great film. But it was an absolutely sweet film ... there was obviously so much that could have been said and portrayed in the characters and the relationships and the happenings ... but it was nonetheless a delightful mix of fun, fantasy, pathos and story. It is a film well worth watching.
The characters have a depth that grows from the beginning of the film to the end. The unfolding of their stories adds layers to the overall story of a little boy who Crusoe the water horse is absolutely adorable as a baby, and the way he is portrayed is delightful, particularly when he and Angus, the boy who found the egg are getting to know each other.
As the movie ended I couldn't help but wonder how much of the written story was left unsaid in the cinematic version ... it was simply a delightful film that tells us that our world needs a little bit of magic, and that if we keep our hearts and minds open we just may see the mysterious water horse ... afterall, as we're told in the film there is only ever ONE water horse in the world at a time, and that when it grows old it lays an egg that will replace itself ...
Like Angus happening across a mysterious rock on the Scottish shore, perhaps one day another little boy will indeed find a mysterious egg ... and the world will whisper the possibility and potential that knowing magic and mystery still exists around us ...
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