Also Read: 'CODA,' 'Summer of Soul' Win Top Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance Film FestivalInjuries and chronic pain are a bonding factor among all other riders in this corner of the American southwest.
Informing the film with authenticity, the filmmakers insert Collins into this reality via a series of group sessions with other ailing jockeys, all of them non-actors just sharing their actual near-death experiences.
All along, while trying to get back in shape or dealing with a faster horse, Jackson works through the soreness of his mangled body.
Every training session is labored, but Collins makes such muted strain credible.Unlike other stories situated in similar environments, the animals here are part of the milieu but not the.