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The simple feelings between people and dogs often do not need many gorgeous words, just like the movie "Togo" adapted from real events, its story is actually very simple and straightforward, but in this dangerous race against death , the film shows the bravery, fearlessness and loyalty of the sled dog Togo to the fullest, and it is in this process that the film outlines enough moving touching between the fetters of the sled dog and the sled dog.
Compared with films such as "Hachiko the Loyal Dog" and "A Dog's Mission" that show the emotions between people and pets in the family, the experience of "Togo" is actually more legendary. The original story of the film happened in 1925 in Alaska, USA. A diphtheria epidemic broke out in the town, but the town did not have a vaccine specifically for this disease. The vaccine had to be transported from a state hospital thousands of miles away. In the cold winter when the roads were blocked by heavy snow, the local government could only use dog sled relays The way of transportation to transport vaccines, the protagonist of the movie Togo, as the lead dog and the sled driver Leonhard Separa, was responsible for the most dangerous part of the journey, and the route they were going to run almost occupied half of the total distance. Its difficulty can be imagined.
In terms of plot, the film does not focus all on the dangerous journey of transporting vaccines, but adopts a dual-line narrative of one main and one auxiliary. In addition to the main line of the sleigher Seppala being ordered to deliver vaccines, the film is interspersed. Togo's growth process, Togo is not talented, on the contrary, he was a dog that Sepala disliked. The black and brown fur is not beautiful enough, the blood is not pure enough, and he is smaller than other sled dogs. In Togo, in the process of getting along with the Separa family, it gradually showed its loyal and smart side, and the emotional fetters of the film were naturally generated and fermented.
After interspersed with a humorous and tender story of Togo's growth, when faced with this difficult and dangerous road of drug delivery, the film will naturally bring more emotions into the film, and the combination of long-range and overhead shooting A large number of scenes, so that "Togo" not only shows the natural beauty of Alaska's ice and snow, but also highlights the danger of this desolate journey. The most impressive thing about the film is that in order to save people faster, Sepala decided to travel In the ice lake, in the face of the danger of the frozen layer suddenly breaking, Leonhard used all his strength to throw Togo to the opposite bank, and Togo did his best to pull the broken ice layer closer to the opposite bank. They are all trying their best to save each other.
It is at such a turn of life and death that the emotional core shown in the film has long exceeded the love of ordinary people. What Togo and Sepala brought to the audience is not just the dog's loyalty and bravery, but A recognition that both parties regard each other as partners, dogs are never a tool for people to drive, let alone a toy for people's entertainment, as Separa said at the end of the film: "I always thought that Togo It was born for the sled, and finally found out that it has always been born for me." It should be a family member that we should also cherish, just as a dog will give all his heart to you, we should also cherish every one of us. Loving yourself, recognizing your own life, and accompanying yourself are always the most cherished existence in life.
In the movie, Togo did not become a hero, but was responsible for handing over the last sled player Gunner and his sled dog Barto, who were mistaken for a hero, and later generations even mistakenly erected a sculpture for Barto. But does it really matter for Togo and Sepala? Just as Togo will never know the meaning of this perilous journey, we will not only remember a Togo's name in this film.
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