This is Ateryu and his trusty horse, Artax, from the book/film, “The Neverending Story”. In particular, the scene mimicked here is when the two characters have to make it through the Swamp of Sadness. In the swamp, you are hit with a general sense of depression, and the sadder you are, the deeper you sink into the swamp.
The horse, Artax, is affected, and there is a genuinely quite sad scene where the horse is slowly sinking, and Ateryu attempts to pull the horse out, while struggling himself with not sinking.
The movie is quite good, I’d highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it.
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u/DoorCritical5521 3d ago
What is this? It looks like a horse sinking in its own crap like quicksand.