The wildness of a dog is also the wildness of a man

Jeffry 2022-04-23 07:03:26

I haven't read the novel, but I think the novel must be more exciting. After all, the vivid visual images are no better than the delicate words + the rich imagination of people.

Dog lover, loyal shit shoveling officer, and watching movies about dogs will always add a layer of favorite filters.

Buck started out as a spoiled dog. He ran rampant in the town like a dog "bitch", snatching food, comparable to a professional householder. He was locked at the door by the master and thought about it behind closed doors. However, no matter how much it is like a human dog, it is still unable to resist its nature - "the temptation of delicious food". It is really impossible to assess whether the greed is a curse or a blessing this time. But I think there should be more blessings.

The overall logic of the movie is not very strong, but it can be considered in the past. Some self-evident points can really be reasonably explained by the audience, such as the last wolf-dog hybrid, such as where did the previous head dog go, such as the sudden appearance of the black wolf of faith? (That wolf is really too handsome).

Simulate this lively big dog with motion capture. I have to say that the dog's micro-expressions are vividly portrayed, grievances, joys, fears of being arrogant, dogs are still dogs, but dogs are like people. Excluding the protagonist's halo, whether it is in a pack of dogs or a pack of wolves, it always implies this truth: the strong is the king, and the loser is the bandit. Strong refers to strength, and more importantly, the strength of the mind. This is not only reflected in the fact that when the hunger is unbearable, he also actively gives his own food to his companions, and smashes new frozen mouths for the dogs who are swallowing it. Drinking water, more importantly, It's natural but I can control it. Buck likes white animals~ Whether it is a white rabbit or a white wolf, they all attract him from their nature. Nature makes it hunt, but consciousness tells it to play, not to hurt.

Before Buck let the rabbit go, it hadn't tasted the smell of blood, it didn't have the consciousness of struggle, and it didn't have the concept of protection. This is also the reason why it will be beaten down in round 1. But fortunately, its previous behavior won the full respect and trust of the dogs. Later, the dogs woke it up. At this time, it had an object to protect, and it realized the necessity of fighting and fighting. This also paved the way for him to finally grab the dog-fighting stick.

The center of the film is wildness, where wildness. From no man's land, barren land. It is the wildness of Buck, and it is the wildness of people. Fighting for gold, fighting, fascinated by the desire for money, and the final result is that no one survives. Gold is to be left here after all. It attracts and devours human beings. Countless gold diggers and countless wild hopes have been left behind in this place, the source of life.

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The Call of the Wild quotes

  • John Thornton: This is a map of the Yukon. My son was always reading adventure stories, crazy about the news coming out of the Yukon. Wasn't the gold, he didn't care about that, it was the mountains. He spent all day looking at maps and pictures of the mountains, dreaming about was on the other side, places no one had been, wild places. We could go, you and me, see what's out there. What do you think?

  • John Thornton: [narrates] There's a place in these mountains where a new breed of timber wolf roams, wiser than men or wolf, because of the dog that runs at the head of a pack. Now... they live without fear, raise their young and flourish.