I’d take that over my generation’s childhood trauma any day:

You’re gonna have to fill me in here. I don’t know this reference.

The horse the audience has grown attached to becomes depressed, and allows himself to sink slowly beneath the mud. The boy understands what is happening and that the depression is going to kill his friend. He pleads and panics as the horse very graphically sinks out of sight with an incredibly disturbing practical effect that must have been real life animal cruelty. Then the boy is left alone in the swap. It’s a fucking brutal scene that symbolizes suicide.

No offense, this is accurate, but it reads like AI wrote it.