War Horse ending explained (spoilers)

[lenmenob]

Joey (the Warhorse) and Albert (Jeremy Irvine) are reunited after Joey is freed from entanglementby barbed wire in No Man's Land by a German soldierand a British soldier working together. The British soldier wins a coin flip and brings the injured horse back to a field hospital.

A British soldier is about to put the horse out of its misery, when Albert whistles his call. Joey responds and Albert, though temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack, is able to identify the horse. Joey is nursed back to health and Albert returns home to his mother and father's farm.

Albert has a new found respect for his father's experience in the Boer war when Albert hands back to his father thecoloredclothhe used to identify Joey.

The movie incorporates certain elements of the Tony Award-winning play, like Joey's acquisition, sale and training, the obstreperous goose on the farm, the death of Captain Nicholls (Tom Hiddleston) and the encounter with the tank. But it adds a subplot of Emilie's grandfather hiding the horse, eliminates thehelpful German soldier that hides Emilie, but includes the life and death of Joey's companion horse, Topthorn. It also has some spectacular scenes of WWI trench warfare.

[carla]

It turns out that Rogue is actually Tom Lone, Crawfords supposedly murdered partner. When Rogue shot Lones wife and daughter, Lone overpowered Rogue and shot him dead. He then burned down the house, took Rogues passports and the like, and had reconstructive surgery to look like Rogue. While Rogue/Lone is battling Shiro, the leader of the Yakuza, Shiro reveals that he wanted Lone dead after wounding Rogue, and an FBI agent gave him Lones location; specifically, John Crawford. At the end, Lone shoots Crawford, maybe lethally, and kills Shiro and the Triad boss. In the next scene he is then shown getting into a car and driving somewhere, most likely to start a new life.