Is Secretariat A Stalking Horse?

In an unexpectedly dark review of Secretariat at Salon, Andrew Ohehir says that it is "a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse."

Roger Ebert gives that assessment two thumbs down:

Say what? We saw the same movie. I am a liberal who has found more than his share of the Dark Side in seemingly innocent films. But in my naïveté I attended "Secretariat" and saw a straightforward, lovingly crafted film about a great horse and the determined woman who backed him against a posse of men who thought she should get her pretty little ass off the horse farm and get back to raisin' those kids and darnin' those socks.

One of them is wildly wrong! Go see it and let us know.

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