Personal Reaction to BUCK Documentary
BUCK is a documentary that focuses on telling the real-life story of Dan Brannaman, who is commonly known as Buck throughout the film. Buck is a cowboy with seemingly magical capability to calm uncontrollable horses and travels the country 40 weeks out annually to host different four-day horse clinics. Through this film, Cindy Meehl provides a clumsy but seemingly uncannily story that focuses on the life, philosophy, and career of Buck, the real-life "horse whisperer." As reflected in the documentary, Buck Brannaman has a unique means of communicating with horses, which is an unconventional training style that makes him a legend in the horse world. Consequently, this documentary is a richly textured and visually captivating film that depicts Buck's growth from abusive childhood to a relatively successful approach and career in transforming the lives of many horses.
Buck's empathy for horses is rooted in his past as a child of an abusive alcoholic father after the death of his mother. The alcoholic father trained him and his brother in the theater art of rope tricks and trained them to hear his drunken ravings in addition to beating them cruelly for incomprehensible...
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