"A Dog's Mission 2": It said nothing, but did everything it could do

Freddie 2022-01-16 08:02:13

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Author: Sheng Sheng not Xi

Picture: Movie "A Dog's Mission 2"

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When I was 11 years old, I told my parents and took back a one-month-old little milk dog from my relatives.

That was the first time I had my own pet. Fortunately, it was welcomed and loved by the whole family, and it has been with us for ten years.

In fact, keeping dogs is a happy and cruel thing, because the time they can accompany us is too short.

But even if it is only ten years, it is also ten years without impurities, ten years accompanied by loyalty.

When we get along with others, we will be jealous, calculate, weigh the pros and cons, and calculate the difference between what we pay and what we pay back.

But in the world of dogs, love is companionship, that is, you can play together after you are full, you can huddle together when you sleep, and you are happy every day.

This is also one of the reasons why so many dog-related movies, although the plot is simple, can still be well received.

They use the simplest love and loyalty to make up for the most scarce emotions in this society.

01

This time, "A Dog's Mission 2" brings the same healing story as the first one.

The theme of the first part is about parting and reunion, and in the second part, the theme of the film has become companionship and guardianship.

It is more persistent and heavier, with a bit of interpretation of fate, and in the most healing way, it explains what is meant by "all encounters are reunion after a long absence."

The film continues the story at the end of the first part. Bailey, who has been reincarnated four times, goes round and round and returns to the owner Ethan again.

The little boy who was only 8 years old when we first met, is now over half a hundred years old and has lost his beloved son again.

The arrival of the granddaughter CJ gave the old couple a great joy in their lives, but like all the contradictions between the two generations, they were not happy getting along with their daughter-in-law.

After a fierce quarrel, the daughter-in-law took CJ and left Ethan's home.

At this time, Bailey was also very old.

It has a tumor, has no appetite, and the pain is increasing day by day.

In the last moments of his life, Ethan accompanied Bailey, calling out his name, choked up and said to him:

If you will come back, remember to protect CJ for me and stay with her.

Bailey remembered.

This time, it was given a new mission, like completing a solemn handover.

So the protagonist of the second part of the film naturally transitioned from Ethan to CJ—the lonely girl who had no father's love since childhood, and almost no mother's love.

02

Meeting again, Bailey has been reincarnated as Molly, and CJ has grown into a 10-year-old girl.

Her memories of her grandparents and Bailey were too fuzzy to remember, but Molly still recognized her with the familiar breath, and created a reunion that only it understood.

It wags its tail frantically at CJ, immersed in the joy of finally fulfilling its mission.

Before meeting Molly, life for CJ and his mother were not easy.

Mother sang and sang every night, living a life of drunkenness and love all day long, the men around him changed and changed, countless thunderstorm nights, CJ was shivering in the quilt alone.

The appearance of Molly gave her a support she could hug tightly when she was scared for the first time.

I really like a line in the video:

Sometimes, the only thing you can do is to be with you.

The world of dogs is much simpler than humans.

Just like many years ago, Bailey saw CJ's mother lose her temper with the Ethans, naively thinking that she must have been robbed of food;

Just like when Molly in this life was trained, she remembered the different tastes of cancer patients and healthy people just for the reward of food;

Just like when Molly had to part with CJ in a car accident, she would still be very happy when she heard the voice of the little master.

In the third life, Bailey was reincarnated as a big yellow dog, and had an owner who loved snacks.

It also loves him very much, but when CJ unexpectedly appears, it will rush forward excitedly and give her a short little luck.

Of course it began to say goodbye to the new owner silently in her heart, expecting CJ to take herself home, but she did not recognize it.

After CJ left, he chased the car for a long time, guarding the door every day, looking forward to seeing her again all his life.

"I must find you."

With this conviction, the fourth generation of Bailey was reincarnated as a cute small dog Max.

In order not to be adopted by others, it grinned at everyone who wanted to adopt itself and became a grumpy little guy until it recognized CJ by its smell and voice.

This time, Max did not let the opportunity slip away in vain.

It escaped from the cage, passed through the crowd, crossed the street, and let itself run into a flash of lightning.

Later, the people at the adoption center smiled and said to CJ:

You are the only one who has not been bitten by Max, it seems to have chosen you.

There was a bit of fatalism in this sentence, but our audience laughed and red eyes.

People cry, precisely because of the stupid loyalty of the dogs.

03

Compared with Bailey's clarity and simplicity, the human world is obviously much more complicated.

CJ has a childhood sweetheart named Trent, who obviously likes each other, but he hasn't had the courage to confess.

Later, they each set off to work hard for their ideal life.

If Max hadn't smelled Trent, maybe they would have missed each other's lives.

After the two reunited, Max was called a god assist, and he even worried secretly in his heart:

You guys lick each other's faces! Obviously so longing, why don't you lick it!

But how can it understand.

The two of them, carrying a dream of music that seemed impossible to achieve, came to New York penniless. After breaking up with their boyfriend, they went everywhere to stay at their friends' houses. They changed residences every few days, and didn't want to like them for long. Boy finds himself embarrassed;

A good family from an early age, graduated from a first-class university, high salary, good position, and when I reunited with CJ, there was already a blonde girl beside me.

No matter how you look at them, these two people have already embarked on completely different lives.

If Max hadn’t kept the memory of his previous life and smelled the smell of cancer cells on Trent’s body, then his girlfriend would not break up with him, and CJ would not have the opportunity to stand firmly by his side and accompany him through. The hardest time in life, sharing his joy of regaining health.

At this time, Max’s psychological activities are:

I don't know what I am happy about, but I am just happy!

This is a clever setting, which not only connects the settings of the dog's past and present lives, but also shows the hypocrisy in human nature.

Human beings are not as simple and straightforward as animals. We always have to go through all kinds of wind and rain, and taste the world's coldness before we can be sure who is the one who is worthy.

04

Under Trent's enlightenment, CJ slowly accepted his contrite mother.

She took the letter from her father to her mother before she was alive, and felt the long-lost family affection from the letter.

She began to try to create new songs, sang nervously in front of everyone, breaking through her previous self time and time again.

Trent took CJ back to his grandfather Ethan's home, flipping through the albums one after another, in a warm atmosphere, listening to the old couple leisurely telling the story of CJ's childhood.

At this point, everything seems to be back to the original point of the story.

Ethan recognized Bailey without surprise. He smiled and explained the story about his past and present to CJ. He knelt on the ground with difficulty and completed the classic back-to-back frisbee game with Max.

I think whether the director or the original author must be a gentle person.

They gave the audience a beautiful setting like a fairy tale, which made us want to believe that perhaps all Mao children can carry the memories of the last life and return to their side not far away.

And those dogs who were so kind at first meeting with us may not be just as simple as congeniality.

At the end of the film, Max spent the last time of his life with the elderly Ethan.

It said in the narration:

Every time I leave, Ethan stays by my side. This time, I finally came to accompany him instead.

Later, Max also came to the end of his life.

This time, it finally left with confidence.

It has fulfilled its mission. In CJ's lonely life, it did its best to give her warmth and company.

Now, CJ has Trent, a baby, and a reunited mother. In the future, even if he doesn't have himself, he will never be lonely again.

This is how animals express love.

It didn't say anything, but did everything it could do.

In the dimness, Max ran all the way through the familiar wheat field, becoming a big dog, Molly, and Bailey.

In the depths of the wheat field, is its beloved master.

After experiencing the long cycle of seven lives and seven lifetimes, it finally returned to Bailey and returned to Ethan's side.

Rather than saying that this is the mission of a dog, it is better to say that the director is using a dog's perspective to convey the power of loyalty and companionship.

It allows us to see another way of expressing love, which is purer, less rewarding, and easier to feel satisfied and happy.

The biggest surprise in life is nothing but a lost one.

Just like Bailey and Ethan silently agree:

There is home wherever you are.

I found you, you recognize me, this is the happiest thing in the world.

[About the author]

Sheng Sheng is not Xi, literary water bottle girl, heart to the warm sun, earn a living, but also seek love.

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  • Liam 2022-03-14 14:12:27

    I've done the mental construction, but still crying? And every laugh point in the second part really poke me, the dog is so cute, I want to raise a max! ! ! The love between Trent and CJ is so beautiful. It would be nice to take a few more shots in the daily relationship~ Suddenly I understood what the two of them said in the interview. After watching the movie, we will feel love, healing and warmth~

  • Alexzander 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    The dogs are really cute. They were melted by the cute dogs in the film. They contributed a lot of laughter and, of course, tears. I was moved by the companionship of dogs to humans, and suddenly I felt very happy to have a dog. thing. Dog owners should be able to get a lot of sympathy in the film, and they will probably love their dogs more after watching it. In addition, I am very touched by the mutual support between Trent played by Liu Xianhua and the heroine. Trent is so charming. Fortunately, the final ending did not disappoint.

A Dog's Journey quotes

  • Bailey: I had a lot of lives, all different. Sometimes I was big, and sometimes, I was small.

  • CJ: What're you doing here?

    Shane: You don't answer my calls.

    CJ: Yeah, because I don't wanna talk to you, Shane.

    [tries to walk away from Shane]

    Shane: Come on, CJ. You're not still mad about the party? Don't walk away from me.

    [roughly grabs CJ]

    CJ: Whoa, get off! Shane!

    Shane: I thought you were cooler than this.

    CJ: Shane!

    [Bailey, as Molly, bites Shane on the leg]

    Shane: AAH! It bit me!

    Bailey: Go away. CJ doesn't like you.

    Shane: I'M GONNA KILL THAT STUPID DOG!

    Bailey: I don't like you either.