I watched it critically, but after watching it...I really admire the director!
The director used the dog’s fifth life to expose the fate of dogs in different families and different living environments. At the same time, it also revealed that people in modern society often have endless anxiety because they do not "live in the present". .
The first life: the puppies that did not see clearly the breed-the "tragic life"
plot that died at birth At the beginning of the plot, the protagonist Bailey died soon after he was born, and many viewers have not even seen that it is one. What kind of dog's life is over. This bridge actually revealed that many new dog owners, without any common sense of dog health, just want to raise a dog, or just because they see someone else has a dog, they buy it and buy it. After returning, she died without feeding for a few days.
In the group of dog owners in China's new cities, almost every dog owner has raised one or two puppies at home. Many times everyone blindly blames dog sellers for selling sick dogs. There may be such dog sellers, but it is impossible for all of them to be such dog sellers.
Second generation: Nova Scotia Duck Hunting and Retriever Hounds ---- not only satisfying human civilization, but also releasing the "blessings" of self-instinct.
There is someone to accompany, someone to feed, to have health immunity, to have formal registration and management, and to have it during the day. The big yard and the big grassland run freely, and some people interact with each other. At night, there is a greenhouse to sleep peacefully, and you can live to die forever.
For a dog, true happiness is half to live to adapt to people, half to live to release its own nature, and most importantly, to be able to live normally to old age. This is the best state of life in which people, dogs, and society live together in a balanced manner. All three have ensured their normal development, and at the same time they have completed the best mutual cooperation. This is the universal ultimate pursuit of ordinary people to raise dogs.
The third generation: German Shepherd-the "death" of giving up his life for the common good of nature
From the perspective of the need for higher progress in human society, we believe that this is the sublimation of the value of the dog’s life. In order to maintain a more universal and peaceful and sustainable development of the entire society, human beings are not only working hard to pay for their own value, but also to give the dog. The value of life beyond their life instinct. In the sense of the overall balanced development of nature, the meaning of life of social functional working dogs is much higher than that of individual family dogs.
We have nothing to blame for their way of survival, and we are not qualified to criticize the unique way of survival of the functional departments from a purely moral point of view, because the social value holders that these dogs exchange for their lives have our own share. All we can do is to make ourselves better abide by the public order of the society. Everyone is to abide by the law and order, and there will be fewer and fewer social functions that require dogs to pay the price of their lives.
Of course, if some people specifically borrow the lofty value of the dog's social function and allow the dog to endure these hardships only for their own self-interest, then this kind of person is not worthy to talk about love and respect for the dog.
The fourth generation: Welsh Corgi-the "ghost"
that was hailed as a pet but was melancholy for a lifetime is what really makes me admire the director. It is this section that Bailey is reincarnated as a Welsh Corgi. It seems to be regarded as a love by the owner and live a peaceful life, but in essence, the director let it sit alone in front of the camera in the final shot and instantly leap into the old state, and finally die with claustrophobic eyes. If I hadn't had the previous fifteen years I will never see the sadness I see today.
The life state of this Corgi is the most common situation in which all dogs are owned as personal items. People often only understand dogs from human emotions and think that they are good for dogs, and they project human love to dogs. To comfort the emotional needs is to love a dog. No one will lean over and stand in a dog's perspective to see themselves, and no one will stand in the nature of a dog to understand a dog. Few times in his life, this dog can be freely released in nature. Even with a companion of the same kind, it is also a superposition of two same destinies. No one can understand the look in his eyes when he finally died. In the end, his owner did not understand. It's inside.
This is the fate of all the captive dogs in the city. I have been looking forward to it all my life, and I have been melancholy all my life. The only thing it is better than other dogs is that it eventually lived to be old, not being transferred, not abandoned, not prematurely killed, and not strayed.
However, its owner has found a lifetime companion and psychological belonging because of it, which is a kind of spiritual unfairness.
Fifth Generation: Saint Bernard Dogs-the expectation of returning to the ultimate blessing of humans and dogs has
to admire the director for turning such a big turn, criticizing human beings often facing animals, only paying attention to self-emotional expression, and The universal absurd love ethics that disregards the necessity of the other's nature.
Finally, at the end of the plot where the protagonist is single again for decades and finally gets married with the one he loves, it also reflects that love between humans is an accompanying process of mutual independence and mutual companionship.
Love is not the possession of one party, nor is it pure letting go. The same is true for keeping a dog. A dog is not a plaything for pets, nor is it a purely tool for work, nor is it an old thing you can throw away at will. It is a living life, a member of social coexistence, and a life partner. There is a fact of mutual independence and mutual cherishment.
Live in the moment-the last line of the film looks blunt and strong. The
last line is not abrupt in my opinion, but the film director wants to use it to point out all the previous scenes that are hidden in the scene and need to be solved. In the real life of modern people, all kinds of good medicines for negative anxiety are often produced due to the loss of oneself.
When the male protagonist was young, his classmates did not dare to face the difference in abilities between him and the male lead, and finally led to arson and crime due to jealousy and anxiety; the
male lead was fatally injured when he succeeded, because he did not dare to face the current setbacks. Abandoning himself, abandoning his lover, abandoning his career pursuit, and abandoning the dog he likes;
the same is true for his father, because Bailey's mischief caused a promotion failure and gave up all of his own, becoming a street alcoholic Ronin;
the poor young couple who just started raising it in the fifth generation, because they dare not face the current poverty, they spent their entire lives in poverty in that poor house.
These plots are all to introduce the essence of the last sentence "live in the moment".
Especially the fifth life of Bailey, when the poor young men and women tied it with a chain and spent so many years in the sun and rain on that courtyard, it never gave up, never complained, never pessimistic, no matter how many conditions are. It's bad, it eats seriously and lives seriously; especially when faced with the cold human nature of the young men who drove it on the road, it optimistically reversed the cold human nature into new vitality.
This is the dog, the dog who always lives in the moment, and the dog who is always the most pragmatic.
I often tell students in the dog trainer training classes I run, I come from the poorest family in the countryside, without education, no personal connections, and no financial support. I have come to this day by myself, and let myself little by little. To grow and transform, to free yourself from ignorance, from timidity, and from poverty. Step by step, make your parents smile more, and step by step to make your family more happy every day. All this is because I have been with all kinds of dogs every day for more than ten years. I learned from the dog species in the process of teaching all kinds of dogs-living in the present and facing Reality, acknowledging the deficiencies of reality, and accepting the coldness of reality, can I turn the coldness into vitality like a dog.
After watching the movie, go back to the present.... The Hachiko, which
was full of rewards and moved back then, under the love and touch of the dog that the movie set off, there are so many dogs with the misery of their lives. Will the phenomenon of bearing the residual heat of people's self-psychological impulses happen again?
However, if love and affection are separated from sufficient realistic conditions and objective abilities, once this love is blindly released into the act of buying a dog and returning to pet, what will the result be for the dog? Will it become a sequel to Hachiko, a loyal dog?
To be honest, before watching this movie, I wanted to go to the cinema with the critical director Lesser Holstein, because when I was working in Shanghai as a dog training for ordinary families, his famous animal movie After "The Hachiko of the Faithful" was screened, I saw another side...
Once a "Hachiko of the Faithful" led to the opening of many Shiba Inu and Akita dog shops all over China. All the so-called pedigree dogs bought in Japan are kept in kennels, or kept in cages for many years and reduced to dog-bearing tools.
After watching "Hachiko of the Faithful Dog", many people know nothing about Akita and Shiba Inu, and do not consider whether they have the conditions to raise the dog until the end of life, and there is no feeding training at all. In the case of knowledge and ability, he buys a dog blindly only by being moved by the movie.
However, in less than half a year, more than half of the Akita, Shiba Inu and other breeds of dogs that were moved by watching movies have disappeared. Where did they go?
1. Because of too much love, some of the puppies who were less than three months old were killed by playing
when they were young because they didn’t understand the dog’s health knowledge, and they were kept playing for a few days, because they loved this dog too much. No, because the dog is described in the movie as being too loyal, I must treat it well, so this person can keep a little hairy dog for one or two months unable to sleep for seven or eight consecutive days, because this person wants to love It, therefore, must respond to his (her) petting. Therefore, it has no chance to get a good night's sleep. For a baby who was just born for half a year, you can make him (her) unable to sleep well for a week.
2. Because people don’t know how to train discipline, a part of the dog barking is sent away or resold.
3. Because people don’t know how to train discipline, a part of the dog runs away after going out.
4. Because people can’t train discipline, they can’t hold the rope. The dog rushed to the road and was killed partly.
5. Because people could not train and discipline, the government took part of it after being complained.
6. Because people could not train and discipline, he was maliciously thrown on the street in the middle of the night and wandered partly
7 、Because people don’t know how to train and discipline, they maliciously plugged some parts of pet shops and dog training bases
because they couldn’t help but want to kill part of them by themselves.
What place, I can not imagine ......
SO
real dog
is to think about whether there are objective conditions for raising it to lead their lives
really want a dog
is to think about whether they have the ability to feed its training and discipline
real Good for dogs
It is to allow the dog to adapt to the city rules in a healthy and safe manner, and to find more free space for it in the city.
Although the movie is moving, it’s not impulsive to keep a dog—the dog trainers of Dogdo would sincerely remind all moviegoers!
Here, we call on everyone to raise dogs rationally, scientifically, and civilly, and work together to promote a culture of balanced coexistence of people, dogs, and society, and strive for more free space for dogs in the urban environment, so that dogs can live in Live to the end of life by your side and provide guarantee of ability.
If you really want to raise a dog and want you and your dog to get the ultimate blessing, please take action and learn, please admit that you do not have scientific and objective knowledge and ability to live and be healthy for their lives. Responsible for safety. After fifteen years, I have found a simpler, lower time and economic cost, safer for dogs, faster and longer-lasting results for everyone, waiting for everyone to use.
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