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WILD LIKE ME

“Finding a New Herd”

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What You Need To Know:

WILD LIKE ME is a documentary on Great American Pure Flix about Arizona prison inmates finding redemption and new lives through training wild mustang horses. With an excess of wild horses in the Arizona outback, the program is tasked with thinning the herds to avoid overpopulation. A prison in Arizona, noticing this, decided to help. They created a program that allows prison inmates to train wild mustangs and sell them. The inmates start to realize they share many characteristics with the horses. Their horse trainer is a chaplain. While teaching them to train and ride the horses, he also teaches them life lessons that parallel the lives of wild horses and men.

WILD LIKE ME highlights the redemption process the inmates undergo, and it does a great job of doing so. It has a strong Christian, biblical worldview. Bible verses are displayed, and “Amazing Grace” is played. The movie also promotes Christian prayer in one scene. Finally, one of the inmates mentions surrendering to God. WILD LIKE ME moves at a leisurely pace, but it builds to several quietly powerful, emotional moments.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong Christian, biblical moral worldview about a program that uses prison inmates to train wild mustang horses and get them a home so they don’t overpopulate and starve in the wilderness, with Bible verses such as Isaiah 61:1 shown prominently, prison inmates speak about surrendering to God, God being a healer, and God working in their lives, a manager in the program says he became a Christian during the “Jesus Movement” in the 1970s in Southern California, redemption is the main theme, “Amazing Grace” is played over the soundtrack in one scene, there’s a prayer in the name of Jesus, movie clearly shows positive transformations among the inmates in the program, and finding a purpose in one’s life figures prominently, plus some of the men are veterans and briefly discuss their time in the military;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

Some of the inmates talk about the crimes that landed them in prison, some of which involve murder and manslaughter;

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No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Some inmates speak about their past alcohol abuse and parents who had alcohol problems;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No depicted smoking or drugs, but some inmates speak about their past drug abuse, and manager talks about being under cover in the police as a narcotics officer; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Some inmates speak about their dysfunctional families and the different crimes that led them to prison, but this is looked back in a spirit of repentance and a drive to learn from it and do good.

More Detail:

WILD LIKE ME is a documentary streaming on Pure Flix about prison inmates in Arizona finding redemption through training wild horses. With an excess of wild horses in the Arizona outback, BLM is tasked with thinning the herds to avoid overpopulation. A prison in Arizona, noticing this, decided to step in and help. They created a program that allows prison inmates to train the wild horses and sell them. The new program was a hit, and the impact it left on the prison community was far larger than ever could have been expected. The inmates, first of all, had to learn to master their emotions. If they lost their temper on the stubborn horses, they were thrown out of the program. Since the training was every inmate’s favorite part of the week, they learned how to control their anger and impatience and work with the horses. It didn’t take the inmates long to realize that the horses were very similar to them, insecure, untrusting and stubborn. Their trainer, who is also a chaplain, helped them to work through these different parallels and present them with life lessons to help them reenter the world and succeed after their sentence was served.

WILD LIKE ME highlights the redemption process the inmates undergo while training these horses, and it does a great job of doing so. The movie is very personal. Viewers hear directly from many of the inmates about their lives and how the program shaped and transformed them into better men.

WILD LIKE ME moves at a leisurely pace, but it builds to several quietly powerful emotional moments. The interaction between the horses and the men changes both Man and Horse.

WILD LIKE ME has a strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview that really shines. The Bible and God are mentions and shown throughout the movie. Even some of the inmates, when interviewed, talk about God’s role in their lives. “Amazing Grace” is played over the soundtrack in one scene, and there’s a prayer in the name of Jesus at the end.

Redemption is the main theme in WILD LIKE ME, and it’s displayed wonderfully. Many of the men in prison are filled with regret and pain, and training wild horses helps them process those feelings and overcome them. One of the main points in the documentary, and something the chaplain talks to the inmates about, is the herd analogy. He explained how if the trained horses are released back into the wild with the other wild horses, they quickly would revert back to their old ways. Just like the horses, if the men return to the world after being changed in prison and go back to the same group of people they were with before, they’ll return to their old self-destructive habits and probably end back in prison. This is a great message, not just for inmates but for everyone in life. As Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:33, “Bad company corrupts good character.”