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Monty Roberts: A Real Horse Whisperer is a 1997 documentary film about the life and work of horse trainer Monty Roberts.

Roberts alleges that his father used methods that were abusive, in that they were intended to break the will of horses and destroy their ability to resist the demands of human beings. Allegedly, the elders in Monty Roberts's circle maintained adamantly that kinder methods could only lead to disaster, because a horse treated so as to make it a friend could easily and unpredictably turn on its master. Horses could only be handled safely, they maintained, if they had been too strongly intimidated by human beings to ever offer them any resistance.

According to Roberts, he could not square the evidence of his own senses with the belief system of his elders and eventually split with his father over this issue. He felt great sympathy for the plight of the horses and urged the use of methods that would put the horses in a frame of mind to be cooperative with human beings.

Critics ask the following questions:

Did Marvin Roberts really beat his son, Monty Roberts?
Did Monty Roberts really study wild horses?
Did Monty Roberts really invent horse whispering?
Is 'join up' really a useful horse training technique?
Were the book and film 'The Horse Whisperer' really based on Monty Roberts?
Has Monty Roberts lived a life worthy of emulation?

Category:1997 films

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