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[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

You're gonna have to fill me in here. I don't know this reference.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The horse the audience has grown attached to becomes depressed, and allows himself to sink slowly beneath the mud. The boy understands what is happening and that the depression is going to kill his friend. He pleads and panics as the horse very graphically sinks out of sight with an incredibly disturbing practical effect that must have been real life animal cruelty. Then the boy is left alone in the swap. It's a fucking brutal scene that symbolizes suicide.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The Neverending Story. That's the scene where Artax the horse gives up and let's the bog of depression drown him

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The Never Ending Story (1984)

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

What a young movie!

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like the horses story ended

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never ending story the horse is with the kid through thick and thin then gets stuck in a swamp and kid has to leave him behind.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Small clarification, he gets stuck in the swamp of despair basically. He only gets stuck and dies because he loses hope. Atreyu tries to cheer him up and give him hope, and it's that scene that's depressing AF. It's like something out of old yeller.

[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A scene from The Never Ending Story. They travel through the Swamp of Sadness.

https://youtu.be/k6NjDg-Od84

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know this one but not the one from the post. Is it slender man is something?

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think the OP is from the movie Signs?