At the beginning of "My Wronged Family is a Dog", Fletcher used montage to let the audience see two completely different lives: the grandmother over 90 is neatly dressed, elegant and generous, the home is orderly, and the grandmother's mood is also optimistic and peaceful;
However, Sarah, who had just moved to a new home and suffered from her live-in boyfriend cheating, gave herself up, was slovenly, did not comb her hair or wash her face every day, fell on the sofa in her pajamas and snow boots to eat junk food and watch movies, and her home was full of snack packages.
At the funeral of her grandmother's death, Sarah even wore a skirt because there was no one to help her zipper. In the family, Sarah is nagged by her mother because she is inferior to her sister, who is married and has children;
Careerally, Sarah, a law graduate, could only teach high school Chinese, and was so exhausted by mischievous students and the fastidious Mr. Peters that she lost control while walking her dog and wailed "I will be unemployed, I will live in a cardboard box under the bridge, no one loves me, my life is over".
The "path" taken by Sarah is a process of gradually becoming comfortable in her career, gaining the affirmation of others, opening the door of her heart in marriage, establishing new relationships, returning to a healthy lifestyle in life, and restoring self-confidence psychologically. And the convergence of problems makes Sarah's road quite bumpy.
In "My Wronged Family Is a Dog", Sarah's dramatic change in life is also inseparable from the help of others.
The most representative of these are Patrick the little starling, colleagues Becky and Ben, all of whom help Sarah go from "crippled" to "complete". Although Patrick caused countless troubles, he inadvertently helped Sarah meet veterinarians Oliver and Ben, allowing Sarah to regain confidence in her gender charm.
More importantly, Patrick, who chased deer madly in the park, fought with cats repeatedly, and traveled thousands of miles home to find the Lord after mistakenly boarding someone else's boat, was brave, and his courage inspired Sarah to refute the unfair treatment of Mr. Peters, pay tribute to and mock her sister, and complete the five-kilometer fun run.
Becky is smart, and when Mr. Peters ridicules Sarah's class for not signing up for the Fun Run, Becky has the opportunity to sign up for Sarah, and says that Sarah represents the "Save Starlings" club, and when Sarah retreats again and again in training, Becky who acts as a coach helps her persevere.
When Patrick is lost, it is also Becky who accompanies Sarah and makes ideas for her search, and student Vicki's father Ben is a devout.
Ben is a character who forms an intertext with Rochester in "Jane Eyre" that Sarah talks about in class, and although Ben has a love for Sarah, he knows that he has not completed the divorce procedures with his eccentric and snarky wife, and has not confessed to Sarah, but silently cares about Sarah.
When Sarah needs help, such as just moving to a boat, a person running five kilometers breathlessly.
Like most coming-of-age movies, "My Wronged Family is a Dog" has a happy ending. At the end of the movie, Sarah stumbles through the fun run to raise money for the grumpy old man, and when she falls to the ground, the long-missing Patrick appears;
And the students in Sarah's class are no longer mischievous because Sarah is willing to treat them as a friend, and Sarah also fights back at Mr. Peters' questioning of her way of educating;
Parents stopped criticizing Sarah; What's more, Ben and his daughter Vicki and Sarah form a new family for Nappatrick.
It can be said that Sarah regained her active position in the family and society and gained a more optimistic and positive attitude, which is exactly the prize she received.
"My Wronged Family is a Dog" cannot be regarded as a cute movie like "A Dog's Way Home", the protagonist of the film is Sarah instead of Patrick, which imitates and reveals a human-centered, complex and diverse life.
The theme of the movie is not a single person and a pet blind date. And it is precisely because of the film's "Golden Fleece" narrative mode that a variety of themes can unfold one after another with the heroine's "on the road".
In the movie, the good side of human nature is amplified, Sarah stops the students' car theft and touches them, and Sarah also tries her best to help Vicki remedy Vicki, who does not come to the exam because of family changes;
Ben helps in the home of the lonely old man, and has no complaints about the unusually violent temper of the old man, and the music run project hosted by Becky represents a kind of social goodwill.
Fun Run is a charity event that aims to raise funds for the underprivileged. Sarah also had to run to the finish line in order to buy an electric wheelchair for the lonely old man, and even Mr. Peters, who had always been at odds with Sarah, opened up to her in order to finish the race for Sarah, who was late.
The movie does not free the individual from the predicament, but attributes the sublimation and transformation of the individual to the pet, which only provides a pair of eyes to witness the entire warm and sunny society.
