He bonds with Boo, the wildest horse in the Fletcher Street stables, and is told, "Horses are not the only thing that need breaking 'round here," suggesting that he needs to fix his attitude. These include Nessi (Lorraine Toussaint), Paris (Jamil "Mil" Prattis) and Esha (Ivannah Mercedes), among others.

Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved. Will Cole tip over into drug dealing and quick money because Smush makes it look so shiney? But Concrete Cowboy coasts on the real warmth of its characters for each other, and the love for their horses. 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SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. It also reinforces a point Paris makes earlier about the senselessness of,"Concrete Cowboy" is best when its characters are on horseback. Cole's coming-of-age is less a loss of innocence — though there is that — and more of a search for home. This kind of a moment belongs to tear-jerkers, but here it’s done with delicacy, both father and son learning to lean into each other from this moment on.Horses as therapy can be trope-y. His father's tough-love approach does not make that easy. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.------------------------------------------. Staub uses a handheld camera to give the story some intimacy, and he also provides a strong sense of place, occasionally cutting to shots of sneakers hanging from telephone wires.The filmmaker does not rush the story. He finds an empty fridge, a filthy house, and a man who has more to say to his pals gathered around the neighbourhood campfire every night, than to his own son. Mainstream Hollywood hasn’t really shown Black cowboys in quite such an upfront way: here, Elba, McLaughlin and others, trot their way out of trouble, head held high. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: Idris Elba Plays a Tough Inner-City Horseman in Masterful Father-Son Drama Reviewed at Wilshire Screening Room, Los Angeles, Sept. 7, 2020. There is also a storyline involving Leroy, who gets involved not just in the Smush subplot but also in the stable narrative. The cowboy is such a ‘Western’ fixture in our imagination that to learn that the urban horsemen tradition in Northern Philadelphia is more than hundred years old leads to disbelief.