The first impression I got after I read the introduction about BUCK, I wasn’t attracted. I didn’t really care about a horse whisperer. And I kept wondering how the director had pitched to the producers, since it risked being like a personal commercial. Besides I don’t do horse riding and know next to nothing about it. But after watching it, I realized the film is not really about horses. Buck said it at the beginning of the film: “A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I’m helping horses with people problems.” As the director Cindy Meehl said, BUCK is a human story. It relates to the audience whoever they are and whether they like horse or not. And I believe good documentaries are about people, about people’s conditions, about people’s struggles and how they try to get out of plight. BUCK is one of them. The whole film tells us how Buck handles the ne…
