Lean On Pete

Lean On Pete Review

--Aman Sharma

Lean on pete is based on a novel sharing the same name by Willy Vlautin ,written and directed  by Andrew Haigh.

Synopsis

Charley , a teen raised by a single father, meets a horse trainer Del Montgomery. Struggling from the meagre money his father used to give him, Charley starts working in Del’s stable, where he finds an amiable horse lean on pete, As pete is aging and not  able to further compete in the horse races., Del decides to sell pete in Mexico at a slaughterhouse. When Charley comes to know that he took pete,  both of them starts a voyage to his aunt.

My Opinion

While reading the synopsis  you might  be thinking that this movie will be filled with melodrama , depressing background score and exchange of cheesy dialogues but lean on pete doesn’t offer this. Even then you won't be able to come out of the theater with  dry eyes and that’s why its director “Andrew haigh” must  be revered as he made this film look so simple and yet it shows something more than what we call “Entertainment”.  Charley Thompson immaculately played by Charlie plummer, his character arc is so wide as film starts with an innocent boy who turns out to be the most bitter boy in the end due to the streak of the tragedies. A special account of the scene where he was fighting the homeless man and Charley did justice with the both extremes of his character. This film just show how enigmatic  a human relation can be. A boy found a bond in horse greater than his father and his mentor. It is a hybrid of a road film and coming of the age film , I strongly recommend this film.