A few days ago, about the three words human, love and dog, a question popped up in my mind: why does the love of people for people disappear, but the love of people for dogs remains the same or even gets stronger with the passage of time? ?
I thought about it and got a promise, but I don't know if it's right or not. When you love someone, you will have expectations and requirements from the loved one, at least you will expect your love to be responded to, and expect the other person to love you too, so you may be disappointed, because of disappointment, love will be damaged and will disappear. But to love a dog is to simply enjoy giving love, without expecting anything in return or expecting it. This kind of love is like a steady stream of water, never stopping.
I watched a Mexican movie recently. The title of the movie is "Love is a bitch", which is also translated as "People, Love, Dogs". The latter translation is broader and more appropriate. The film tells three stories about people, love, and dogs.
Susannah's Choice
The young Octava lives with his mother, brother and sister-in-law. His elder brother, Amiro, is a gangster who cashes in the supermarket during the day and robs the supermarket as an amateur. He is also quite rough with his wife, Suzanne, and their children. In the middle of the year, the family is struggling to survive, and Susanna is pregnant again. Octava has always been dissatisfied with his brother. He fell in love with Susannah. He asked Susannah to leave with him, to fly away, to leave his brother, and to live a new life. In order to complete this plan, he asked the family dog "Goofy" to participate in the fight. Dog gambling, winning money, let Susannah hide, as a future life fund.
However, just the night before the final day that Octava envisioned, Amiro was beaten and fled with Susannah, the child and the money. Desperate, Octava went to participate in the agreed dogfight. The grudge opponent shot "Goofy". After stabbing the opponent, Octava and his partner took "Goofy" and drove away. During the escape, there was a car accident, which collided with the car of a female model. A homeless old man helped pull him out of the car while taking his money and saving his dog "Goofy".
What I want to say is, Susannah's choice.
Compared with the bastard's brother, Octava is more gentle, affectionate, and responsible. It is conceivable that living with him will be a little happier, but Susanna still follows her brother Amiro. During the execution of Octava's plan, Susanna was half-hearted, at least she convinced Octava that she would go with him. I believe it was not as simple as cheating money. At some point, Susanna was also moved, but she was hesitate. The conversation between the two was, "Don't you understand yet?" "I understand." "No, you don't understand."
Knowing that Amiro is a jerk, Susanna married him after she became pregnant. When she had another choice, she still chose Amiro. Is this inertia? Yes, this is inertia. Amiro is the father of her two children, and she puts more and more bets on Amiro that she cannot afford to lose.
It's not clear whether she loves her brother or her brother. But it's clear that love is not her most important thing, the most important thing is to live. One more option, of course, is good, but it doesn't matter. At this time, I am very envious of Liu Yuling's sister in "Deadly Woman". Don't say it, even she is not free to choose, or to choose completely based on love. Our choices, our love, are limited.
Just like when Amiro was shot to death after robbing a bank, at the funeral, Octava still insisted on his plan and let Susanna and him fly away. The conversation between the two: Susanna said, "You still don't understand? "Octava said, "I understand." Susannah said, "No, you don't understand."
But as the audience, we understand, but we don't understand. Although Susannah in the story rejected Octava, we always thought, maybe not at this age, maybe a little younger, a little crazy, maybe a little older, a little more open, maybe, Ok Tawa would wait for his Susannah on the bus platform.
I've been thinking about the meaning of dogs in this story. Perhaps, it is like giving and hope again and again, suddenly collapsed in unexpected places. But despite this, after the collapse, Oktava is still insisting on his love.
Mickey's cry
Supermodel Valyria and her lover Daniel have just started living together when disaster strikes. In the accident, her thigh was seriously injured. Unfortunately, her dog "Mickey" got under the unfinished floor and never came out. In order to save the dog, she made various attempts, but only saw the mouse under the floor, and only heard "Mickey" screaming. Meanwhile, while she was recuperating at home, her company terminated her contract and her ad was taken down. Her lover, Daniel, comes home at eight every night. Because there is no extra money to renovate the ground, Daniel does not agree to knock off the floor to rescue "Mickey". In the predicament of his own life, Valyria's emotions erupt from time to time, and the relationship with Daniel becomes rigid. Finally one day, Valyria knocked on the floor by herself, but fainted in the bedroom, causing her leg injuries to worsen and she had to be amputated. Desperately, Daniel lifted the floor and rescued "Mickey", taking Valyria home with a missing leg.
At first glance, this story will feel that Valyria is very active, until she loses one of her legs. In fact, girls understand this story very well. This story is a metaphor for women's emotions. The dog "Mickey" is like the "self" in our hearts. When it is ignored, neglected, or feels danger, such as the danger of losing love, she will attack , jealous, vexatious, and indifferent, until "Mickey" was rescued as a baby and returned to her side, she regained her calm.
Hearing the screams of "Mickey" under the floor, why are you indifferent?
save it!
Homeless and stray dogs
The homeless Martin took Octava's money and picked up the fighting dog "Goofy". Martin roams the streets all day, making a living as a killer, surrounded by a group of stray dogs at any time, the scene is very spectacular. In his residence, too, the dogs gathered around the table when they were eating, and when they were sleeping, the dogs lay beside them, licking their feet, and sleeping with them. Martin loves his dog. He cured "Goofy"'s gunshot wound and went out to do his own business. What he didn't expect was that when he returned home, the bedroom was littered with corpses, and there was only one dog left - the fighting dog "Goofy". He cried bitterly, took out the grab, and placed it on "Goofy"'s head. But did not pull the trigger.
The story is bloody, but impatient, with some kind of karma, like fate. There are no villains, they are all innocent, and the ending is tragic.
Another moving place is Martin's confession in the message to his daughter. He said that he once thought the world was big, so he abandoned his wife and daughter to join the guerrillas, and later went to prison. He asked his wife to tell his daughter that he was dead because he felt ashamed to see her. It is also a kind of iron man. Reminds me of another father and daughter story - Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Seeing the life of the homeless Martin surrounded by a pack of stray dogs seems to be some kind of comfort. In the end, Martin continued to wander with "Goofy", a man with a story and a dog with a story, as if it was the beginning of a new story.
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