When it comes to movies about dogs, many people's first reaction is "Loyal Dog Hachiko". This work has made many viewers cry, even if they are already two brushes or even more brushes.
Recently, the theater has also launched a movie about dogs - "Little Q".
"Little Q" is adapted from a very famous Japanese book " Goodbye, Koru" The book sold more than 2 million copies in Japan, and in 2004 it was adapted into the Japanese movie "Guide Dog Q", which touched hundreds of millions of viewers.
After localization adaptation, it became today's "Little Q".
The plot of the movie is not complicated, Li Baoting, a top pastry chef played by Ren Dahua, became decadent and grumpy because of his middle-aged blindness, and with the help of the guide dog Xiao Q, he started a new life.
If "Loyal Dog Hachiko" focuses on the loyalty of Xiao Hachi, then "Little Q" is more inclined to accompany and heal, because the emotional line of this movie is two-way.
At the beginning, Li Baoting, who gave up on himself, did not want to cooperate with the so-called guide dog training at all, and feeding and walking the dog was even more refusing and resisting. But the trained little q, with his own actions to tell the master, you are needed, you are valuable.
Even if the owner does not feed it, it will not eat what others feed.
Even if the owner is angry at it for no reason, it will silently endure.
When the owner wanted to commit suicide, it was he who desperately saved the master.
Li Baoting, who was cured little by little by Xiao Q, finally accepted the reality of blindness, accompanied each other with Xiao Q for six years, and became a family member who was in love with each other.
Later, when Li Baoting wanted to go abroad for surgery and spend a long time to treat his illness, Xiao Q kept chasing the car and wanted to continue to follow his master, but he was blocked out of the fence.
After that, Xiao Q was like Xiao Eight, sneaking back to the park bench where he used to stay with his master every time, silently waiting for his master to return.
But by the time the master returned, Xiao Q was already old and suffering from an illness.
So the master carried her on his back and took her to see a different world.
Yes, because Xiao Q could not walk, Li Baoting, the "old father" who was no longer young, carried her on his back, just like carrying his daughter.
It may seem weird and even funny, but how many people are crying at this scene?
"Little Q" not only fills the gap in Chinese movies about guide dogs, but also has absolute educational significance.
There are actually very few professional institutions in China about guide dogs, and many people do not know guide dogs at all, let alone trust.
Li Baoting in the film, at first, was also skeptical of Xiao Q, not believing how much change it could bring to himself, and even felt that it was a burden because he needed to be fed.
The film devotes a great deal of space to telling us what the life of a guide dog is like.
Guide dogs are not actually a specific species, many breeds can be trained as guide dogs, common labrador, golden retriever, German hound, poodle and so on. The main domestic guide training is the Golden Retriever and the Labrador.
Saddled with the mission of helping visually impaired people return to the normal trajectory of life, guide dogs are destined to be different from ordinary pet dogs from birth.
From an early age, they can't play on the grass like other puppies, nor can they grow up under the care of their mother.
They have to go through a long period of training and pass four stages of testing before they can wear a guide saddle and become a truly qualified guide dog.
At two months old, they have to learn to get along with humans, then learn various basic skills, then start a lot of road practice, and finally learn emergency protection for their owners.
After passing the examination, they begin to accompany and lead the visually impaired, through their work, so that they can feel the world from another perspective, until the age of 10, retirement, back to the original family.
Just like in the movie, the life of the guide dog will have at least three owners, the first is the original family who was fostered when he was born, the first is the trainer who returns to the training base to receive the guidance training, and the third is the object of service, that is, the blind master.
Because the training process is long and complicated, the average cost of training a qualified guide dog is at least more than 100,000 yuan.
In the case of the extreme shortage of guide dogs in China, this film is undoubtedly a new window for the promotion of the cause of guide dogs.
I often can't help but wonder why dogs can be so loyal to humans.
Their lives are often so short that human beings will occupy almost all of their lives, but their lives, for human beings, are at most only a dozen years, and they will never, and cannot, occupy all of their masters' lives.
We often say that "dogs are the most loyal friends of human beings", but it is not, because friends are equal, but between people and dogs, it is obviously not equal.
The most moving thing about "Little Q" is that Li Baoting really regards it as a relative who accompanies each other, and even as a cute "daughter", in his eyes, Xiao Q is no longer a dog, but a "person" with the same feelings as himself. When Xiao Q is old and sick, as a "father", how can he abandon her?
He not only had to accompany her and take care of her, but he also wanted to make her happy in his last days.
How many people can be like Li Baoting?
I think that if you can really meet a master like this, then even if you are tired in this life, the dogs will not have any regrets.