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When Megan Levy's best friend Jesse took drugs with her and then died of drug use, she had no concern for the world, and then lived a life of day and night, drunk and dreaming, until on the eve of destruction, she accidentally encountered a recruitment advertisement, out of survival instinct, Megan did not hesitate to take risks.
At first, the strict military life did not change the character of Megan Levy Lang Dang, late one night, after returning from a bar indulgence, she was punished for cleaning the kennel for a week after being caught by the disciplined troops outside the office of the commander of the gendarmerie; the animal-loving nature made Megan Levy look forward to the position of dog trainer, so she gradually changed her bad habits in order to become a qualified dog trainer, and finally was recognized by her superiors as a member of the military dog unit.
Megan Levy learns from the most basic "walking iron dog" and will bite as a hypothetical enemy dog in training. Once, because of the deception of her comrades, Megan Levy participated in training without wearing protective pants, only to be bitten by the most sensitive Ricks in the military dogs... And this human-dog encounter not only changed the trajectory of Megan Levy's life, but also changed Rex's life forever.
After many twists and turns, Megan Levy was finally able to fight alongside Rex, and the love-obsessed side of her personality was once again revealed, she was almost inseparable from Rex, and even had dog testimonies when she was with her boyfriend Qingqing me.
However, the cruelty of fate lies in the fact that it allows you to witness the beauty of things, but it is ruthlessly taken from your hands.
During a mission, Megan Levy encounters an enemy trap against rex, and after a bloody battle, the company finally escapes, but both Megan Levy and Rex are seriously injured. After recovering, Megan Levy decided not to return to the battlefield, but due to poor communication, her beloved boyfriend decided to continue to fight on the battlefield, and the two parted ways.
But to make matters worse, Megan Levy is discharged from the army, but Rex must continue to serve, and her second best partner has left her, and her new round of self-abandonment has also come.
The disappointment of life and the longing for Rex have caused Megan Levy to become hysterical and crazy, and the family has been trying to help her out of the haze of her heart... After being deeply touched by her father's words, in order to let the terminally ill Rex spend his old age, Megan Levy hopes to adopt rex after retirement, but due to Rex's overly sensitive personality, rex is not suitable for adoption under the veterinary assessment, which means that what awaits Rex is the execution after retirement.
For Ricks, Megan Levy is definitely no longer decadent, and under the premise of being put on the "unpopular blacklist" by the military, she has found another way to visit the New York City Senate, participate in talk show interviews, take to the streets and ask passers-by to sign her petition to adopt Rex... All the efforts, can rex have hope for a new life, and can he live in his old age after retiring? We'll see...
WarHound Rex is a war story biopic directed by Gabriela Copperswert and starring Kate Marla / Tom Felton / Bradley Whitford / Geraldine James / Coman / Eddie Faco / Will Patton / Ramon Rodriguez / Shannon Tarbert / Miguel Gomez / Jonathan Howard / George Webster / Kerry Johnson / Sam Keely / Catherine Dale / Miles Mussenden / Marina Mathius / Parker Sawyer 2017-05-07 Premiere at the Montclair Film Festival, 2017-06-09 released in the United States, 2018-05-11 in China.
Based on the true story of the War in Iraq, the film tells the story of Marine Corps Corporal Megan Levy and her military dog, Rex, who together saved the lives of many people. "War Dog Rex" restores the Iraq War from the novel perspective of "military dog", for the first time comprehensively shows the thrilling picture of military dogs detonating in the war zone and saving people, and truly portrays the tense and brave state of female soldier Megan Levy and military dog Rex on the battlefield. The original title of the film "Megan Levy" may be out of consideration for the acceptance of domestic fans, and the title of the film was changed to "Rex the War Dog" when it was released in China.
On the left is the prototype of the film
In March 2003, a joint Anglo-American force launched the Second Gulf War on the grounds that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. military, which had been full of calculations and could make a quick decision, encountered an unexpected setback: The iraqi soldiers and civilians who resisted knew that a frontal confrontation was certainly not an opponent of the well-equipped, surveillance and firepower superiority of the U.S. army, so they resorted to covert guerrilla warfare and suicide bombing attacks, causing the U.S. soldiers to become full of wind and noise, and the grass and trees were all soldiers.
In such a combat environment, military dogs with a keen sense of smell have a great place to play. Whether it's looking for hidden munitions or sniffing for buried explosives, they're indispensable. In that dangerous Iraq, soldiers without military dogs were simply more dangerous than wearing body armor, and the bomb sniffing force formed by human dogs became an indispensable and important support for the US military in Iraq.
A dog saved the lives of thousands of people and saved Megan Levy's poor life---
Rex's prototype is a well-known, meritorious dog that served in three combat units, and during its 3 years of service, it inspected more than 6220 vehicles and participated in more than 11575 hours of anti-terrorism work. As her dog trainer, Megan experienced the smoke of war on the battlefield together, born into death. Eventually, Ricks retired as a sergeant and Megan Levy was awarded the Purple Heart.
After retiring from the army, Rex faced the fate of euthanasia, as a "comrade-in-arms" who fought side by side and was born into death, Megan Levy embarked on a long petition road to adopt Rex, and more than 10 million people across the United States took the initiative to petition to send the anti-terrorism hero dog home. Later, Megan Levy, with the intervention of Senator Chuck Schumer, successfully qualified to adopt Rex. Rex passed away on December 22, 2012, and Megan Levy spent the last three years of his life with him.
This incident was a sensation in the United States at that time, and the fate of retired military dogs has attracted more and more attention.
After Rex left, Megan Levy continued her job as a dog trainer and later as a veterinarian. As she said: It was Rex who made me find the love of my life! And Megan Levy also fulfilled her promise to live and die with Rex, so that Rex, who had lived a lifetime of warriors, could experience what a happy time was in the twilight of the martyr's life.
The American main theme rendering of the Iranian war as the background, although "War Dog Rex" has no lack of routines, and the director has not been able to make any breakthrough innovation in this biographical film, but from the perspective of young women, the friendship between the people and dogs brewed in the bland and restrained emotions, the precious simplicity and purity, has become the heart-warming core of the film.
The thrilling scene of Megan Levy and the military dog Rex discharging and saving people in the war zone, the thrilling moment of restoring the moment of life and death in the war, and the deep bond established by Megan Levy and Rex in the war are all moving. Rex saved megan Levy not only her life, but also her life. At the end of the play, "Veteran Gratitude Day" Megan Levy led Ricks to the Yankees stadium, receiving a tribute from the majority of fans is the most gripping and emotional stroke of the movie, and the common growth of people and dogs, the redemption between each other, and the bland will be a precious human-dog friendship to the fullest.
Megan Levy, who does not want to live a chaotic life in "Rex the War Dog", finds that at this moment, she is inseparable from rex's company.
She decided to challenge the military's long-standing rules that did not allow the adoption of military dogs: she was going to bring home the war-torn Ricks!
Of course, to be fair, the law also has its own truth: military dogs are not pets, they are all born for the battlefield, born into death to develop a stress response to the threat of life and death, when the pet is kept in a residential area, in case of any accident, who is responsible?
Even objectively speaking, as ordinary people, most of us do not want a retired fierce dog in our own community to wander, who dares to let children go out to play?
But this does not mean that the meritorious Rex, only because of illness has no use value, the only thing waiting for it is death. Let's put aside the right and wrong of the war and whether it is about justice, just like Ricks, a military dog like Rex saved the lives of so many soldiers on his side, it deserves to be treated well. They may indeed be unfit to be adopted by civilians and exist in everyday life, but the government and military should also be held accountable for the rest of their lives and allowed to be properly placed.
Rex is recognized as a meritorious war dog, and even awarded a military rank by the military, and then returned to his hometown to wait for him to be executed, which is a superfluous irony, and once again reflects the hypocrisy and cruelty of human beings. Many people may say that we can't even take care of people, who has the energy and money to take care of animals? But notice that it's not themselves who make rex injured or at risk, it's us humans.
In the play, the veterinarian in charge of examining and identifying Rex, according to the rules, is ruthless, she goes to touch rex's wound wound on the battlefield, rex has a certain overreaction, she uses this to determine that Rex can not be adopted, sentenced Rex to death! When your scars are touched and uncovered, who can remain indifferent? Can't you even protect your rights?
The British "Daily Mail" reported that since 2013, the British Army has euthanized 213 military dogs. The reason why these military dogs were euthanized was because of "old age" and "inability to perform their duties"! Although the matter was widely concerned by the society as soon as it was disclosed, there is no law that the military is not allowed to do so.
The famous dog psychologist Stanley Coren said in one of his notes that whenever he preached about the friendship between humans and dogs, someone would always refute it with a sneering voice, claiming that dogs can be domesticated by humans because they are tools. If this tool had lost its usefulness, our ancestors would not have bothered with it. Dr. Coren testifies against a human grave dating back 14,000 years: the remains of an adult, a girl, an adult dog, and four puberty dogs; on the remains of that pubertal dog, he was found to be infected with canine plague, and the duration of the disease lasted for several months. Therefore, it shows that the human beings at that time, when this "tool" was no longer usable, still let him survive for a long time.
Under the existing conditions, human beings still need to rely on the selfless dedication of these animals, which may be a helpless move, but at least when human beings take it, they should take into account the emotions of these animals, face the dangers they need to face, and arrange their old age, otherwise it is a regression of civilization!
14,000 years ago, little girls, in conditions of extreme material scarcity, were able to take care of a sick dog that was incapacitated, and those who used animals as tools should not be ashamed?
"Rex the War Dogs" just makes Megan Levy calmly tell the world the truth:
Ricks was seriously injured in service and suffered from facial nerve palsy, and what awaited him would be injection death. Two comrades-in-arms who were once alive and dead are about to die and die.
She cleverly reversed the strategy of the struggle:
This is not an ordinary citizen's request to adopt a military dog.
This is a warrior who was born and died for the country, eager to accompany her equally outstanding and closest comrade-in-arms through the last journey of her life.
It's also a girl's affectionate call to a friend: I can't live without you.
As long as you still have sympathy, as long as you still have a little respect for the soldiers who have defended the country with their lives, whether human or military dogs, how can you say no in the face of such a request?
"War Dog Rex" is such a healing "dog film", that period of human-dog love obviously has a cruel background of gunfire, but it releases a subtle power that makes our hearts that we thought were hard tremble softly.
Love is not only a hope for the future, but also a gratitude for the past and the companionship of the weak. In life, the latter is more rare, just like our dedication to children and the elderly, often the latter is more rare. The war dog Rex was fortunate not euthanized by the army, and may more people, animals, emotions and even plants be treated with gentleness better...
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