Recently, I chatted a lot with my friends about dogs, which reminded me of a movie I watched in 2017 - "A Dog's Mission". Although it is not comparable to the classics like "Hachiko", it is enough. Warm and healing. The film mainly from the perspective of the dog Bailey (Bailey), with its five lives and four reincarnation experience and encounters, to show us the way people of different families and different personalities get along with each other and between people and dogs. Today, I will write some thanks to share with you. Bailey I was a stray dog with no name of his own and no one to take care of. In the backyard of an unknown house, he played games, ate, dredged mud, and occasionally in the backyard of an unknown house with a group of siblings who were also stray dogs. In the unrestrained running, thinking about life: "What is the meaning of living", "Why do we live", "Is there any mission to live"? But before finding the answer, he was taken away by the stray dog shelter. Unpleasant appearance, what is waiting for it? Possibly unadopted, forced to end their lives in poison gas. This life is really too short, a few minutes is the epitome of its life, and it is also the epitome of the life of many "stray dogs". Perhaps, just from the word "wandering", we can think of all kinds of pictures we have seen somewhere: the cold winter, the dark corner, the dirty trash can, and the stray hairless stray. dog. What is the meaning of their life? But once food and clothing, a tile shade.
Of course, the meaning of life is not to regret the loss, but to be grateful for the continuation. Soon, the "stray dog" ushered in its first reincarnation. By chance, it met its first owner, Ethan (Ethan), and it was also here that he had his first name - Bailey. It accompanies Ethan to read, play ball, and run, bringing infinite fun to Ethan's gloomy and depressing childhood; it also witnesses the bits and pieces of Ethan's life, watching Ethan's cheers when he wins his father's agreement to raise a dog, and the joy when he wins the game. High-spirited, free and sweet when dealing with Hannah (Hannah) and depressed and evasive when encountering misfortune later. Bailey has been integrated into Ethan’s life since childhood Afterwards, how did the family become different; why did Ethan fall apart after breaking his leg, choose to break up with Hannah, and no longer play ball with himself.
Bailey really couldn't understand it. With such a single cognition, how could he understand the complex emotions of adults? It's such a pure way of expressing love that when Ethan left the farm to go to school, Bailey just instinctively followed the departing car, down the dusty road, through the endless golden wheat fields, and jumped into the car window to say goodbye to Ethan. . It should be with Ethan. What's the point of living without Ethan? But as time grows old, waiting to die.
If there really is reincarnation, I don't know if it is a gift of life or a responsibility to live. The second reincarnation of Bailey became a police dog, raised in serious police force training, and excelled in various search and rescue missions with his unsmiling owner. It's just that Bailey doesn't understand, why are the many honored police officers still unhappy? It's just after get off work, nesting in a dim room, looking out the window silently, chewing the food on the plate woodenly, and it doesn't change day after day. Could it be that, alone, he was also thinking about someone, just like it was thinking about Ethan. Loneliness, Bailey thought, might be the worst thing that can happen in life. But for me, the worst thing is that Bailey just healed a lonely policeman, and in a blink of an eye, he said goodbye to him on another mission. In the camera, only the inarticulate police officer is left holding the shot Bailey clumsily repeating "you'll be fine" over and over again, unable to comfort the audience, let alone deceive himself. Life is probably such a drama. Just when a ray of sunshine penetrated the cold winter and thought that everything would return to the earth in spring, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, pulling the injured person back into the darkness again, and continuing to lick the wound in the dim room.
Although repeated reincarnation is not fun, Bailey has performed well in every life. This may be due to the dog's instinct and inertia, and the sincerity and honesty of each owner. That's right, Bailey is reborn again, and he also met a girl who is afraid of being socially hurt by love - Maya (Maya), Bailey in this life seems to be more understanding, not only understands all Maya's thoughts and lives with her, but also Take her to find the true love of life, bravely walk out of the closed self-world, and form a happy family. Bailey, who has been reincarnated three times, treats life more calmly. He is accustomed to the ordinary daily life, the passage of time, the loss of his good partner Roxy (Roxy), and welcomes him in his thoughts every day. Come to the end of your own years. We are afraid of parting, but we cannot escape parting. In this life, it's time to say goodbye. When Maya asked the last sentence "what are you thinking about", Bailey didn't have enough energy to respond, but with Maya's love going through the last leg of his life, he thought "I'm ready, and I've lived happily ever after." When companionship becomes the confession of the longest love, what's not to be satisfied with?
But unfortunately, not all dog owners are like Maya: if I love you, then I'm fully prepared to accept you, take care of you, keep you safe, and be responsible for the rest of your life. Poor Bailey met such a master after his fourth reincarnation. The hostess, who was still worried about her livelihood, brought Bailey, who was sold on the street, home, but was turned away by the male host. He survived spring, summer, autumn and winter, and was finally abandoned by the master in a remote wilderness. It is undeniable that the hostess likes Bailey, but she does not have the courage to resist the male host, nor the ability to take care of Bailey. Her love is sincere, cheap and irresponsible. Fortunately, this is a warm story. The director let us see the abandoned Bailey along the memory of the second generation and found the farm. After three generations, after many years, Bailey finally saw the Ethan he missed again. The young man who used to be young has turned into an old man who is over half a hundred years old. The decadence and depression when he encountered the accident in the past are no longer on his body, and he also sincerely apologizes. Asked Hannah for forgiveness. When Bailey jumped on Ethan's back again and grabbed the ball, he suddenly felt that life was a mystery, as if the recognition and hug at the moment erased the decades of separation in the middle, and everything returned to the original point, stay by my side Yes, it's still the familiar you.
This film does not have rigid lines, but narrates the daily life that is common but ignored by us in a bland tone; without deliberate tears, every death and separation of Bailey is so natural and logical, poking people's hearts in different ways. A soft place; there is no pretense of sadness and forcible sensationalism, just at the moment when tears fall, you can turn your tears into laughter and transfer to the next reincarnation. Similarly, the film's emotional expression is more restrained and reserved, rather than describing Bailey's constant reincarnation, it shows us all kinds of people in this world through Bailey's eyes. As Bailey saw in the first reincarnation, the long-term and tedious outdoor sales work made Ethan's father more irritable and anxious, anxious about his work, about his livelihood, and perhaps anxious about not being able to understand his family. We only know that he was very resistant to Bailey's arrival, lost his temper when he saw the disrupted study, and locked Bailey in the warehouse when his promotion hope was dashed; but also ignored Dad's agreement to leave Bailey to see his son happy The corners of his mouth rose, ignoring Dad's discussion at the dinner table about the Cuban Missile Crisis that could jeopardize work and livelihoods, ignoring Dad's acquiescence in Bailey's escape from the warehouse, and ignoring Dad's fullness when Ethan and Bailey were playing ball on the farm. A smiling gaze.
Later, with the economic crisis, Ethan's father lost his job, became more depressed, drank all day long, quarreled with his mother constantly, and became more suspicious and inferior in front of his son and wife. Seeing such a father, Bailey only sighed "Poor Dad". Bailey's cognition is purely single and cannot deeply understand the entanglement of the human world, but we can. Between people, between people and dogs, all need companionship, talk and understanding. If Ethan could understand his father's situation at the time and try to communicate frankly, I wonder if he could find a solution? I don't know, and the idea is just an idea.
As Bailey said at the end of the film, the meaning of life is to be happy first, try your best to help others whenever possible, kiss your lover, don't be sad about the past, don't be sad about the future, just live. right now.
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