Note: This article only represents personal opinions, it is good for everyone to be consistent and different.
1. Voice acting
The first is that the dubbing of dogs of different ages has always been the same person, although this is not the biggest problem. But after watching the whole movie, her tone of voice did not change in the slightest, her emotional response was calm, and she did not feel any sense of substitution, completely isolating the dog from the human being, and you would never realize that it has grown along the way, even with the advancement of time, You can't feel the change in time, and you keep thinking that it's not going around the same place all the time until it says it's been two years. (Of course, the four seasons of the environment and the growth of the cougar can tell the progress of time, but you feel like this is what happened in a few days)
2. The human protagonist has a weak emotional connection with the dog
The most important thing is that in order to continuously promote the expression of "going home" in the center, the rhythm of the early promotion is extremely fast and blunt. Not to mention that the relationship between the male protagonist and the dog is only built through playing together. I don't remember a blanket and a piece of food. In the very fast-paced progress in the early stage, the line of military trauma and stress disorder was also added, which made the male protagonist probably forcibly happy because "a good dog fell from the sky".
The biggest problem is that the growth of the dog and the protagonist is not synchronized. The dog has grown up, but the male protagonist is still the same male protagonist. And the male protagonist's performance is just: oh, I have a dog, I am very happy; oh, my dog is going to be given away, so sad; oh, my dog is lost, me? ? ? (The plot didn't show, just posted the dog-hunting revelation); In the end, the dog came back, oh my god, I didn't expect it to come back, oh I have another dog. Where is affectionate? If you say that you have a dog love complex because of love, I have nothing to say.
Dog owners may have a little experience, but for people who don't own dogs, they basically don't agree with this kind of emotional connection, which is too superficial.
3. The plot is blurred and the growth is weird
To sum up, my feeling is that a dog was brought and sent away, went around in a circle in an unknown forest, had enough fun, and finally remembered to go home, and then it went home. . .
?→⭕→go home
4. People and things full of labels
I hate using the word "politically correct" to describe a movie or game or something. But maybe I was brainwashed by various articles on the Internet, and every part of the plot made me find people with obvious labels. For example, white + black, gay, racial discrimination, racial discrimination in the animal world, the status quo of veterans in the United States, justice is greater than the law, Asians, do not love dogs forever single and so on.
I want to say that these expressions are of course not wrong, they are all positive energy, I am gay, of course I am glad to see the voice of the society (but it is more to be ridiculed and ridiculed). But the film expresses for the sake of expression, and it is so full of stuff, without logical emotional establishment and plot support, it is too blunt, and it is incomparable to The Shape of Water.
5. Climax weakens narrative clutter
It doesn't matter if the dog's experiences are changed in order, it doesn't hurt. In the end, he forced the road killer and told us that if we didn't obey the traffic rules, we would be hit. It's fair to say that the movie doesn't have any high-stakes parts, just certain small moments that make you feel suddenly moved, not the emotional outbursts like Hachiko and a Dog's Mission.
In short, it is a work that uses cute pets to deceive people's tears. It will make people cry, but it is only forcibly sensational. 2 or 2.5 stars is more than enough given the landscape and lens performance is not bad.
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