I don't know if everyone remembers a dog that accompanied you to grow up, and whether the dog was sent away for some reason. Today, veterinarian Xiaoming is going to recommend a movie for everyone - "Lacey the Greyhound" (1943 version, remade again in 2005 as "Lacey the New Greyhound"), which tells the touching story of a sold dog who embarks on a thousand miles home.
Set on the eve of world war II in the 1930s, Joe's family, a young boy living in Yorkshire in eastern England, is living a very difficult life, and his father, Sam, is unemployed, to paraphrase, which is exacerbated by the popular saying that the family that was not rich was even worse. The most valuable thing in Sam's family is a sheepdog named Lacey.
Lacey would go to school every day to pick up the little boy and take him home, but one day the little boy did not see Lacey after school, and came home to learn that Lacey had been sold to the old duke's family, and the money would make the Sam family's life better. But for a teenage child, he only knows that he has lost his favorite dog and his favorite family.
When Lacey arrived at the old duke's house, he cut open the soil at the bottom of the cage and escaped. This was the first time Lacey ran out, ran to the school to wait for the little boy, and then was happily taken home by the little boy, but was blamed by his parents.
★ There are several details in the paragraph where Lacey first escapes home:
(1) When Lacey returned home, he was coddled in the crook of the man's arm, and the man pretended to be calm and indifferent to it, but actually missed Lacey very much.
(2) The hostess was not impressed when she heard that Lacey was not well taken care of, but when she looked at Lacey, she could not hide the pain in her words, and made a delicious meal for it.
The cage was also reinforced after Lacey was brought back, and this time it could no longer take the first method to plan the earth to escape. However, Lacey came up with the idea of crossing over the cage, which seemed unlikely, but it managed to escape again after several attempts.
This time the little boy did not take Lacey back, but went to a cave in the wild, because the little boy knew that going home would not save Lacey. However, the little boy's mind was immediately guessed by the old father, so this time the man personally took the little boy and Lacey to the duke's house and returned Lacey, and the man wanted the little boy to persuade Lacey not to run away again.
The scene of the little boy saying goodbye to Lacey is very touching and poignant, and this scene is also seen by the granddaughter of the old duke.
★ Scratch the point, here is a foreshadowing, will be tested in the next plot.
Soon after, Lacey and the old duke's family went to Scotland, and when they arrived in Scotland, the caretaker who guarded the dog was afraid that Lacey would escape again, so he targeted it and locked it with chains. One day she was seen by the little girl, so she ordered the administrator to take Lacey for a walk. And in this rare opportunity to get out of the cage, Lacey began to escape the plan again.
When the caretaker chased Lacey to the gate of the courtyard, he happened to run into the old duke and the little girl who came back on horseback, and the little girl deliberately opened the door to let Laixi go, which echoed with the front and reflected the kindness of the little girl.
Lacey managed to escape and head straight to Yorkshire, his hometown, which begins with the climax of the film, focusing on the various situations and thrills that occur on Lacey's journey home.
Lacey experienced his first robbery on his way home, when Hey passed the farm and crossed the sheep, he was bumped in the face by the guardian with a shotgun, and got into a fight with the farm's guardian dog, and Lacey won the battle.
At this time, the gun in the guardian's hand did not fire at Lacey for a long time, and he said, "She is a brave dog, she wants to go somewhere, and I forgot to load the bullet." In fact, this guardian was also shocked by Lacey's strong will, so he let it go.
On the other side, the Sam family's life is back to the way it was, and the little boy seems to have come out of the sadness of losing Lacey. On this day, the little boy's father and mother said that they wanted to surprise it, and the little boy blurted out "Lacey" without even thinking about it. As a result, the so-called surprise was nothing more than a slightly extravagant stationery for their family, and the little boy's disappointment was written on his face.
Unbeknownst to them, Laixi was now struggling to get home hundreds of kilometers away. One rainy night, Lacey collapsed at the door of an old couple because of many days of rushing, and the old couple saved Lacey, but they also wanted to take Laixi for themselves.
But while they were nice to Lacey, Lacey was the owner's dog and he was going home. Grandma observed Lacey for a while and said the same thing as the hunter before him: it was going somewhere, it was on its way home. So the old couple decided to let Laixi go, and When Laixi left, he looked back as if he was grateful for their care.
Lacey continued on his way, and he met a street performer and his dog. Lacey followed them all the way and participated in street performances to help them earn money, and Lacey's high profile attracted the attention of two local hooligans who fought with the street artist in order to rob Lacey.
The street performer's puppy is killed while protecting the Lord, and Lacey rushes up to avenge it and repels the bad guys. Lacey and the street performer parted ways after burying the puppy.
Lacey finally arrives in her hometown, but when she is caught as a stray dog, she injures her leg and limps home. At this time, the old duke also arrived, and Sam and his wife hid Lyce, but the old duke did not come to take back Lycy but to give Sam a job to take care of the kennel. And in order to return Lacey to Sam in name only, the old duke also pretended to have never seen Lacey, which can be said to be a perfect happy ending.
Here veterinarian Xiaoming also introduced the plot, and many details depicted in it need to be watched and felt by everyone. This film is actually based on the novel, although it is old, but the full film color style is very pleasing to the eye, and it was also played for students as an educational film before, and it is estimated that children who have seen this movie when they were children can run. Therefore, this movie is also very suitable for viewing with children at home.
In addition to the film itself is very touching, the shooting method is also very sincere, as the animal theme of the film is also a large number of shots and close-ups left to the dog, so it will be more tear-inducing and substitutionary.
However, as a veterinarian, Xiaoming also saw a deeper level of things after watching this film, such as the protagonist Sam and his wife sold Lacey in order to make a living, and now the living conditions of most families are not as bad as selling a dog, but they will also give up their pets for various reasons, the most typical is that the owner is pregnant, in fact, this is a completely solvable problem.
Pets like dogs who are very loyal to their owners may only identify one owner in their lives, and frequently changing owners and living environments is cruel to them, just like Lacey in this film, the old duke, the old couple, and street performers it meets after leaving Sam's house really like it, and it can be said that they are all qualified owners, but Lacey still chooses to continue to walk, just to return to the home in his heart, and sometimes, the dog is more stubborn than we think.
In addition, this film also makes veterinarian Xiaoming think about another topic about pet raising, that is, the one-way choice between pets and owners.
Basically only the owner chooses the pet and no pet to choose the owner of the situation, the choice between the main pet is not two-way, you can choose a satisfied pet or dislike a pet that you don't like, and the pet has no way to choose the owner you like, and there is no way to dislike and reject the owner you don't like. So if one day you can let the dog choose its own owner, it is not necessary that you are still disliked.
When the pet identifies its owner, it will not care whether the owner's appearance is correct and beautiful, whether the economic conditions are superior, etc., so there is not such a sentence: "The dog is not poor." "Dogs never care about these superficial things that are important to humans, they only need their owners to be kind to them and love them." So this is ironic enough to compare with those who dislike pets, abuse pets, and deliberately abandon pets.
Veterinarian Xiaoming also often reminds everyone that pets must not blindly follow the trend, before that must be prepared, including mental preparation and economic preparation, raising a pet is responsible for its life, the pet's life is short, it may only be a fragment of the life of the shoveler, but you are their life.
Well, this is the veterinarian Xiaoming today for everyone to bring the film recommendation, if you are interested, you can watch it yourself, you can also share your feelings with veterinarian Xiaoming, then see you next week.