VIDEO – THE MOST DANGEROUS SPECIES –
April 21, 2023 – This film follows the story of Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), an inmate of 12 years who is nearing the end of his sentence. Roman’s been relocated to a facility in Nevada where they hope to help him make those last few productive strides before letting him go, yet due to his own fears about his behavior, Roman is reluctant to cooperate. However, he impresses his superiors after being seen successfully handling an unruly horse.
As such, they enroll him in the facility’s mustang taming program: a joint initiative between the prison and the Bureau of Land Management, where inmates are paired with a chosen mustang to tame for eventual adoption. Under the instruction of the head rancher, Myles (Bruce Dern), the inmates in the program are taught how to engage wild mustangs and properly undergo the process of “gentling” them.
This proves to be difficult for Roman, whose primary fear within himself is his violent tendencies. The horse he’s paired with, a beautiful buckskin, is by far the most temperamental and aggressive horse in the program, and if you’ve ever been around an agitated horse, you know fully well how frightening they are! Roman, having had no prior experiences with horses, constantly fluctuates between his fear of the situation and his natural response, which is to fight back—as seen in this clip below:
