"Loyal Dog Wandering" people and dogs are not in love! The tears can't be stopped! Text/Wang Min

"Loyal Dog Wandering" people and dogs are not in love! The tears can't be stopped! Text/Wang Min

About author:Wang Min, director of the China Film Critics Society, columnist of film criticism in some newspapers and new media across the country, and reporter of Xiamen Radio and Television Group.

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The recently released movie "Loyal Dog Wandering", like the recent focus on fire fighters, policemen, doctors and other professions of "119 Please Answer", "Big City No Small Things • City True Heroes 2021", "Hello, Pediatrician" and other main theme documentaries, through panoramic shooting, record and restore the current situation of the work of practitioners. Although the subject of the film is not a fire fighter, it presents the same common characteristics as the above documentary - in a large number of real cases of life, stray dogs are hunted and eaten, trainers and search and rescue dogs eat and live together, search and rescue dogs save people in the earthquake ruins, search and rescue dogs training scenes, etc., a scene of real social conditions is presented to the audience, highlighting the search and rescue dog "Dingdang", which is as vivid and vivid as human beings. During the viewing process, the author and the audience around me shed tears more than once, not only because the documentary method truly restored the rescue operation of the search and rescue dog, but also used artistic techniques to portray the revolutionary feelings of fire fighters and search and rescue dogs.

Synopsis

This film is based on the real background prototype of the search and rescue dog "Dingdang", telling the story of search and rescue, training and getting along between the fire fighter Yang Qi (played by Ying Haoming) and the search and rescue dog "Dingdang" trained by himself. In an earthquake rescue, Yang Qi retired early due to injury and was forced to say goodbye to "Ding-Dong". Years later, "Dingdang" secretly ran out of the recuperation base because he missed Yang Qi, and became a stray dog, waiting for Yang Qi to return at the dock.

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Recently, China's first film co-produced by China and Thailand about the brotherhood between fire fighters and search and rescue dogs, "The Wandering of loyal dogs", was released in domestic cinemas. The film was directed by the famous Thai director Sankai Viduran, whose "October Sonata" won 13 awards at the Golden Swan Awards, the highest temple in Thailand, and he also directed the same dog-themed film "Looking for Dog Topian", which won the best film at the 37th Gifni Film Festival in Italy. Undoubtedly, the film's producer Chose Sankai Viduran tomorrow autumn, a Thai team with pet film shooting experience, can undoubtedly make the story of the retired search and rescue dog "Ding-Dong" spending his life looking for his master, making people feel empathy. One person and one dog, like the famous animal IP movie "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog", has touched countless people, which is the story that really happened in Japan. For Hachiko and Jingdong, they cannot penetrate the distance between life and death, but they have always believed that their master will return. They use their wordless waiting to interpret the deep connotation of loyalty. Both films use the most heartfelt interpretations of people and dogs to pay tribute to the most adorable wordless heroes.

Animal-themed movies can always attract the attention and liking of pet lovers, but such movies are not easy to make well, because animals are not like people who can control their own performances, but the protagonist search and rescue dog "Ding-Dong" in the film can be seen to be the true color, that is, the dog of the year. Its realistic prototype comes from dujiangyan City's Chengdu firefighting meritorious search and rescue dog "Dingdang", who has participated in disaster rescue such as the Ya'an earthquake and The Landslide in Maoxian County, and insisted on searching and rescuing the pregnant mother for 10 hours in the Ya'an earthquake rescue; "Dingdang" has also become a special guest of CCTV with a photo of "search and rescue dog hanging across the river to save people".

Therefore, the film uses flashbacks, the opening of the film is set by an earthquake, and the firefighter Yang Qi enters the ruins with "ding-dong" to find signs of life and rescue the trapped people. At this time, the stairs accidentally collapsed, resulting in Yang Qi's early retirement after being smashed in the leg. It is understood that such a real plot, thanks to the real shooting, like the recent focus on the fire fighters and other occupations of the "119 Please Answer" and other main theme documentaries, the male protagonist participates in military training, and with the fire fighters to eat and live and train. In addition, the film was also supported by the local fire department, filmed in the live location of the dog training base, the trainer and the search and rescue dog participated in the performance together, and everyone restored the most realistic search and rescue dog training scene together.

In the movie, there are 3 tear points for the author's emotional touch. The first tear point at the beginning of the movie, the firefighter Yang Qi in the hospital bed and "Dingdang" affectionately looked at each other, "Dingdang" feelings and detailed posture captured the author's heart; in the later plot, the author has been with the experience of "Dingdang" and sad, Yang Qi and "Dingdang" emotional line developed and turned, not only to explain the background of the story of "Dingdang" escape - the recuperation base of the retired dog, but also to render the rich and accumulated feelings between the owner and the dog; the second tear point in the "Dingdang" for the search for Yang Qi, When they came to the pocket back pier where it and Yang Qi were separated, they were caught by the clerks of kong er dog meat restaurant and prepared to kill them alive. By coincidence, when "Ding-Dong" saved the father of the owner of Kong Er Dog Meat Restaurant, this father's conscience found that not only let the clerks release all the stray dogs, but also said at the scene: "The dog breed that saved me in the ruins of that year was Labrador, and now I can save a few of them..." The author burst into tears again, probably because of the rendering of cello music, or because of the emotional pain with the encounter of "Ding-Dong" looking for the owner; the third tear point is that "Ding-Dong" exhausted more than 2 years to find Yang Qi. Even dragging a lame leg at the end, it was still unswervingly watching its master return. The gesture of "Ding-Dong" waiting at the pier has attracted the attention of many dog lovers. In the meantime, in order to prevent the little girl from being bitten by the wolfdog, "Dingdang" was beaten by the owner of the wolfdog. Dog lovers uploaded videos to the Internet, netizens commented in the bullet screen area - "Dingdang" disappeared after being beaten, and even some people commented that when they went to school, they saw "Dingdang" there, as if waiting for someone. Because of Yang Qi's words: "I will be back soon", "Ding-Dong" waited at the dock for more than 2 years. Yang Qi rushed to the news in a panic, because his daughter had a fever but left in a panic, and the author really felt that "Dingdong" was not worth it. "Ding-Dong" has the determination to travel all over the world to find Yang Qi, but the owner only looks for it for one day and leaves, fortunately, at the end of the film, the owner and the dog can be reunited again.

In fact, there are relatively few movies depicting dog themes, but China's filmmakers still leave a lot of popular masterpieces on this subject, in addition to this "Loyal Dog Wandering", there are also "Wolf Totem", "Pet", "Animal Attack", "Loyal Love Without Words", "Blood Wolf Dog", "We Were Born in China", "Wolf Dog Adventure", "Dog Eyes See People's Hearts", "Tibetan Mastiff Love", "That Mountain Man That Dog", "Dog Thirteen", "Kara is a Dog" and other masterpieces. The most significant dog image of these films is the loyal representative created by "Loyal Dog Wandering", which is also the image portrayed by many domestic and foreign films with dogs as the object of expression. Compared with the human society where "the world is bustling, all are profitable; the world is bustling, all are profitable", the loyalty of dogs is precious. From the core point of view, the film tells the story of Chinese his own "loyal dog Hachiko", and lets Chinese understand the loyalty of dogs in a real and grounded way. At the same time, because of the special identity of the "ding-dong" search and rescue dog, it also allows the audience to understand the great mission of the dog as a search and rescue dog, even including the relationship between the search and rescue dog and the fire fighter, as well as the spirit of the people's children such as the fire fighter silently defending the homeland and selfless dedication. The film not only perfectly interprets the fierce loyalty of fire fighters and "Wang Xingren" to human beings, but also warns the world to love dogs and protect animals, not to harm stray animals, and to do their best to give stray animals a warm home.

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