2016's "Pet Secret" sensationalized that whole summer, and this summer after three years, the original team created the "Pet Secret 2" was released happily, telling us about the happy life of those pets after the owner left home. Also about the life of dogs, "Little Q", which will be released on July 25, tells us a different story.
I believe that the audience who has paid attention to pet movies will think of a Japanese movie "Guide Dog Little Q" when they see this name, in fact, these two works are adapted from the Japanese best-selling book "Goodbye, Koru", in the name of love and loyalty, telling the companionship and protection of a guide dog to the owner's life.
Although it is all about the story of guide dogs, "Guide Dog Q" spends a lot of time telling how a dog can become a qualified guide dog through rigorous training and assessment.
And "Little Q" put more energy into the communication and relationship between the dog and the owner, making many of the flashpoints in the second half of the film look more reasonable and convincing.
In recent years, there have been more and more pet movies of all kinds, good and bad, but there are also such fine works as "A Dog's Mission", telling the story between the dog and the owner from the perspective of the dog, such a technique is really eye-catching, but more importantly, it has successfully built a deep emotional bond between the pet and the owner.
Compared with Bailey in "A Dog's Mission" who established a good emotional foundation with his owner Ethan at the beginning, the process of Xiao Q's integration into the new family is extremely difficult.
The male protagonist, Li Baoting (Ren Dahua), is a talented pastry chef with high pride and strong self-esteem. However, at the peak of his career, he was told by the doctor that he was about to lose his sight, and he began to become lonely and paranoid, closing himself off to escape from reality in order to maintain his only remaining self-esteem.
So he rejected the help of anyone else, including Xiao Q, and even drove Xiao Q out of the door on a rainy night, but when Xiao Q still appeared in his home, he began to waver. In the process of pushing away The Little Q again and again, his heart knot has been slowly dissolved by the gentle and cute Little Q.
When Li Baoting wanted to live lightly, Xiao Q desperately saved him; after Xiao Q accompanied him for a walk and was caught by dog thieves, Li Baoting went crazy to look for Xiao Q.
The relationship between them has long gone beyond the relationship between the owner and the pet, and it is also the spiritual sustenance of each other. And such a deep emotional bondage, as early as their long-term daily life laid the foreshadowing, from hostile indifference to mutual foam, everything seems so natural.
As Xiao Huangqi sang in "You Are My Eyes":
"You are my eyes, taking me through the changing seasons;
You are my eyes, taking me through the crowds;
You are my eyes, taking me to read the vast sea of books;
For you are my eyes, and let me see the world. ”
The guide dog Xiao Q gave Li Baoting hope to live, allowing him to see the future again, and he is also the future of Xiao Q. The owner went to the United States for hospitalization, and Xiao Q kept running with the owner's car, trying to accompany him, but was eventually isolated from the fence.
Even if he returns to the foster family that has brought him countless joys, he cannot let go of his master, and every day he will run to the park bench where he walks with his master and quietly wait for his master to return, and this bridge section that pays tribute to "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog" also brought tears to the audience.
And when the owner returned from illness, Xiao Q could not escape the trouble of illness, this time the owner took Xiao Q to appreciate the transformation of the four seasons, and accompanied it through the last time of his life.
Compared with the relationship between ordinary pets and owners, there is an extraordinary interdependence between guide dogs and owners, almost all the time except sleeping, it can be said that they have completely become part of each other's lives, and this kind of silent long-term companionship can best touch our increasingly indifferent hearts.
Li Baoting, who gave up on himself, was healed by such companionship! And what was healed at the same time was you and me watching the movie. Text/Poison Pufferfish