We never know how high we are till we are called to rise.

    影片很平實，但是幾段對白卻給人留下深刻的印象。

    查爾斯霍華德每到一處就召集人們去看他的馬比賽，但以下的這段話，又何嘗不是給那些失業的人們以鼓勵呢：
    We all are here today, because this is a horse who won』t give up, even when life beats him by a nose. But, everybody loses a couple. And you either park up and you go home, or you keep fighting.

    影片結尾，瘸了的瑞德波拉德騎著傷癒的海餅乾衝向終點，內心獨白是這樣的：
    You know, everybody thinks we found this broken-down horse and fix him, but we didn』t. He fixed us. Every one of us, and I guess, in a way, we kind of fixed each other, too.

   為什麼有人願意為自己的理想而不顧一切，甚至以生命為代價，因為沒有目標的生活，真的比死還難受。人生在世，沒什麼拋不下的。

    We never know how high we are till we are called to rise.
    And then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies.
    The heroism we recite would be a daily thing, did not ourselves the cubits warp, for fear to be a king.

                                                                            --Emily Dickinson
    
    真是一部好片子，沒有浪費我一個下午的時間。


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