Two years ago, "A Dog's Mission" was released in China, relying on the director Lesse, who had previously directed "Hachiko the Loyal Dog". Holstrom's sensational skills have successfully teared countless Chinese people and gained 600 million box office, directly promoting a sequel.
It may be that I am afraid that the Chinese people will wait too long, and there is also an "interjected" "A Dog's Way Home" in the middle.
It is also the work of W. Bruce Cameron, and it is also based on warmth.
As a sequel, "A Dog's Mission 2" is qualified in terms of style continuation, the painting style is fresh and warm, and even the plot setting still follows the "continuous reincarnation" of the previous work.
Combined, "Bailey" is enough to make the dog of the 8th generation. When many viewers watched "A Dog's Mission", they joked and ridiculed "What is this doing wrong?" Turning into a dog in every lifetime? ”
In fact, this is just a means of expression.
In the upper part, "Bailey" became a stray dog, a Nova Scotia retriever, a German shepherd, a corgi, a Bernese mountain and other breeds, and served as a companion dog, a police dog, a housekeeper dog, etc.; in the sequel, it became a beagle, a large beagle and a Yorkshire dog.
What changes is appearance, and what does not change is love and protection.
All the superposition of "Bailey's" experience is the fate of all the dogs- when lucky, they will meet a good owner like Ethan, or take on the duties of guarding and arresting criminals as a working dog; unfortunately, they will be captured and euthanized, or abandoned by their owners.
Compared with the previous game, although the style of the sequel has not changed, because of the repeated emphasis on the loyalty of "Bailey" to the little master CJ, it is not only much smaller in the pattern, but also attracts the disgust of some viewers.
In "A Dog's Mission", although "Bailey" never forgot Ethan and wanted to return to his side, when he became Demu, Corgi, and Bern mountain, he was dependent on the "current owner", and "going back" was more like a mark imprinted in his soul, a call, not an obsession.
Even the last time it crossed the golden wheat wave and ran back to Ethan's side, it was a bit accidental. I really love the scene of "Bailey" running joyfully to Ethan in the wheat field, the ears that are fanned up and down because of the jump, and the joy that cannot be stopped, just like the transparent and warm sunlight, instantly sinking into the atrium of the viewer's heart.
In A Dog's Mission 2, Bailey "accepts" Ethan's new mission to find Hannah's granddaughter, Cj, and guard her.
As a result, "Bailey" accompanied CJ's lonely girlhood as a beagle; as a beagle (this breed is really uncertain), "gave" CJ a lucky fortune when she left home to work; and finally became a Yorkshire dog, helping her to find love and get happiness.
However, when "Bailey" became a big beagle, he had a master "Joe" who was also very good to him. But it only thinks about CJ, and after meeting CJ, it only wants to leave with her, and frantically chases the car driven by CJ, and the rest of her life is sullen and unhappy after failing to do so, and even the ending is "depressed"; after turning to Yorkshire, it stubbornly waits for CJ. During the adoption, it repeatedly bit the adopter who held out its hand to it, and chased it through the streets after finding cj.
This arrangement, although it shows the loyalty of "Bailey", it also makes people unfair to "Joe". Some netizens said, "What if my dog is only thinking about its 'former owner'?" ”
The reincarnation cycle of the previous work in tandem "Bailey" presents the survival situation of the dogs, which is the overall situation; the third life of "Bailey" in the sequel, although it also incorporates elements such as sniffing out cancer and adopting instead of buying, "Bailey" pursues cj almost paranoidly, and becomes "little love".
Moreover, because CJ's growth line includes plot sections such as green plum bamboo horses, mother-daughter contradictions, juvenile rebellious era, hard work for dreams, unsatisfactory love, reunion, love and dare not speak, mother-daughter reconciliation, etc., taking up most of the film's length and diluting the "Bailey" scene.
And because "A Dog's Mission" went to the theater to see the sequel, a large part of the audience came for "Bailey and Ethan", which inevitably disappointed.
Fortunately, just like the warm, joyful, and moving ending in the previous game, the sequel also gives us a good ending - the same golden wheat wave, the "Bailey" at the end of his life, galloping all the way in the sun and clouds, gradually changing from Yorkshire to Mount Bourne, which has been with Ethan for many years.
One lord and one pet embraced each other happily, and left together in the wheat wave. All the previous dissatisfaction was also eliminated in this ending!
At the same time as crying, full of warmth!