I don’t know when I started, I can always see books or movies with animals as the main characters. Comedy, and sensationalism has always been the strength of the Japanese rather than the Americans. But it turned out that I was wrong. It should be said that I underestimated the movie.
There are too many pictures of cute animals circulating on the Internet. When we watch these love overflowing, we will inevitably get a little aesthetic fatigue. Dogs are always so dull, cats and cats always love to sleep, in fact, when I see little Marley When lying on Aniston on the farm, I also thought Marley was just as ordinary. But this movie doesn’t seem to make you love overflowing. Marley is not a good dog. It should be said that he is not a good dog as people think. He can hardly be tamed. He is disobedient. He is afraid of thunder and lightning but gives him sunshine. Extremely brilliant, he drank the water in the toilet, peeked at the babysitter taking a bath, went to the sea to pee and pee, and turned the instructor over. He was almost innocent, he was the worst dog in the world. We have been played with American humor again. The cute puppy on the poster is actually a villain. Actually, this film does not want you to think that this is a cute dog. In fact, the dog is not a selling point, even though he is the protagonist. , And the name is also on the title.
What’s the selling point of this movie, it’s actually warm, but it’s not the light music and animal shows in exchange for the warmth of love overflowing, but a good story, telling an extremely common one that has lasted for nearly two decades. The story is exchanged for the warmth of the same feeling.
A young couple is looking for a job to buy a house and raises an annoying dog. Days pass, the husband’s job is getting better and better, the house is changed to a better one, the car is changed to a better one, pregnancy, miscarriage, new children, more children, wife resigns. , Hard work, anger comes from it, misunderstandings, quarrels, reconciliations, work ushers in bottlenecks, job hopping, new life, looking for young people, dogs grow up and still hate them, and they leave, life remains the same. This is the story that the movie is telling. The ordinary can no longer be ordinary, the ordinary can no longer be ordinary, everything that happens is performed and about to be performed in different families almost every day, and the director has almost no skill to make all audiences come into being. A kind of warmth that is extremely familiar and deeply sympathetic. This is the power of the movie. The source is resonance. Although it seems simple, it is really necessary to make most people and even everyone have a familiar resonance. In fact, it is one. A very difficult thing.
It turns out that this movie is not about a few interesting things about a dog and a person like the title, but about the growth and development of a family, how two people go from young to middle age, how to grow old and how to find youth. How to live a good life, so this is still a movie about people rather than dogs. The appearance of dogs will make the family fuller, the movie will be easier, and the reflection will be more profound.
How to reflect deeply is sublimated at the end of the film, because Marley is dead. People who are alive and dead have never tried this thing, but they have all read it. After reading it, there are only two kinds, more fear or more relief, the latter is mostly, and people always get the awakening of cherishing life by witnessing death, no matter it is The real thing is in the movie. Marley died. After the burial, the golden sunset shot diagonally in the forest. Owen stood up and went home. He saw Marley alive dancing with Aniston. Of course, it was just a fantasy. He also saw his wife and children in the forest. Waiting for him at home, this is true. He asked himself: How many people can make you feel the only one pure and special? How many people can make you feel outstanding? (How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel….extraordinary?) Although the movie did not give an answer and it stopped abruptly, the answer is clearly stated in the movie Out: Only your family can make you feel the only pure and special. Only your family can make you feel outstanding. Although Marley finally left, the family is still intact and happy.
The flashback at this time will remind you that maybe Marley is not that bad. He used to wait for the sick child to come home. He once helped bite the cardboard box and let the owner go to the hospital for delivery in time. His embarrassment and nonsense looked like that. His frankness, and his tenacity and serenity when he was dying was equally touching. When he has passed away, everything is not important and all memories are beautiful. At this time, we will still fall in love with Marley involuntarily. The director is very clever. He doesn't need to make Marley look cute, but he can also make the audience like it. Marley is really lucky.
Many people always want to find the meaning of life, trying to make their life vigorous so that it does not seem to be wasted, but in fact, the meaning of life is to live, live in these happy, dissatisfied, lost struggles, and be strong. Going on, even if it is ordinary, it does not hinder the greatness of life. It is not easy to live a good life well. The more you are diligent and unsatisfied, you will lose a lot, even if these things have never been obtained.
So, I thought of my cute cat, a silver leopard cat, who looked like Marley, the most annoying cat in the world. Even if the cat is not as good as the dog's relatives, but this guy is too far away from people, almost never any intimacy with people, if you are in a good mood, he will raise his head to express satisfaction when he is stroked by someone's chin, and use a snoring to express it symbolically. Appreciate. Ignoring people but flattering very much, will be extremely stubborn when feeding, and will put down the body to ask for it after eating, and immediately turn his face and refuse to recognize people after eating. I walked with catwalks in the house all day long, yearning for the life outside the house infinitely. Apart from sleeping, it is eating and tossing. Fighting with people is endless fun, loves to bite and catch people, do all evil, and never forgive him. Like a little warrior, especially fearless, despite his ignorance. I thought that I would be honest after the operation, but on the day of the operation, not only did he hurt the doctor, but he became the first kitten to break his neck ring. Like Marley, after the operation, it was as annoying and as bad as before.
Nevertheless, buy him good cat food, buy litter, buy cat litter, treat him well and watch him ignore you. It is said in the movie that you are sincere to dogs and he will give you his sincerity. I think it makes sense, but I never think Mengmeng has any sincerity for us. Mengmeng is still very young, and it is probably still tossing, but I don't need to wait until the day he died to miss him. I only remember one time, when my girlfriend was crying because of a trivial matter, Mengmeng actually sat there for the first time in history, watching quietly and leaning forward. Later, I learned that animals are not stupid, they actually understand everything.
Speaking of it, it's boring to treat pets as sons who are always pampering them, but keeping a pet well is an interesting thing, because people can actually learn a lot from animals. People come from beasts, but it has been a long time since beasts have developed. Looking at the cat that tried to get up before waking up from the anesthesia, it seemed to see the involuntary flow of vitality.
Having said so much, it's just because Marley reminded me of this cat. And this cat is one year old.
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