I've never had a pet, and if I had, I don't know what it would be like to cry.
What resonates most in the film is how to balance family and work (writing family and career is an extravagant hope), so as not to be on the verge of collapse every day.
Mothers with children may know this best when the film's boss recounts to John that one night after he had his fourth child, he woke up suddenly to find his wife staring at him, holding his hand. Holding a meat chop knife, I really admire the insight of this screenwriter, everyone in the East and the West is human.
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