Guide Dog Q is not an original film, and was originally based on Ryohei Akimoto's photography and Kengo Ishiguro's "Goodbye, Koru" and then revised. As a guide dog, the most distinctive thing about Little Q is the birthmark of the "Little Bird" pattern, which is why this Labrador dog is called Little Q.
Little Q began to train professionally at an early age, studied seriously, and became an excellent guide dog after graduation. However, at first, Xiao Q and his new owner Watanabe do not get along very well, Watanabe is conservative and stubborn, and he hates dogs very much and does not have any trust in them.
However, as time passed, Mr. Watanabe was gradually touched by this little guy, and he began to feel a different kind of warmth. Later, Mr. Watanabe was seriously ill and hospitalized, and Xiao Q waited for him for three years, and then Watanabe's condition gradually deteriorated, and finally he decided to go to see Xiao Q and take another walk with it, which was also the last time in his life that Xiao Q and his master took a walk.
Fortunately, Little Q was not assigned a new owner, and when he retired, he returned to the place where he was when he was a child, and died here.
This movie is similar to the story of "Hachiko the Loyal Dog", which uses the entanglement of pets and humans to make the audience cry in the theater.
Even if you haven't seen a graphic novel called Goodbye, Koru, even if you don't know that the movie adapted from this bestseller that has earned hundreds of millions of readers in Asia has earned the tears of hundreds of millions of viewers before you. As long as you see the movie poster of the dog sleeping with its ears hunched over its ears and its chin flattened on the ground, you will definitely stop, and if you consciously or unconsciously walk into the theater, then the opening three minutes will ensure that your heart is firmly grasped.
It is such a blockbuster movie, you can also add warmth, touching, pure beauty, environmental protection, naturalism, purification of the soul, innocence and simplicity and so on.
It is conceivable that a beautifully bound book with a fragment of the life of the cute loyal dog Koru (that is, the little q in the film) is placed on the first shelf of the most conspicuous row of the noble bookstore, with "Chicken Soup for the Soul" and "Dream of the Bridge" on the left, and on the right are the novels of Jimi manga and Haruki Murakami.
Such a book is best for sitting at Starbucks on a sunny afternoon listening to Lisa Ono read. The table needs a dozen paper towels sprayed with light perfume and dark patterns to move you to tears. It's not sarcasm, it's such a low-sugar cultural point. Especially for women.
However, director Cui Yang Yijing is not a generalist, so the same dessert, he can make the taste just right, which is also his superiority compared to other directors. This dessert was flavored by him quite interestingly, warm but not merciless, refreshing but not slippery.
In the atmosphere of romanticism, the whole film actually maintains a high degree of record-keeping, and there are few habitual dramatic conflicts.
For example, in such emotional films of animals and people, whether it is for tears or for the sake of action scenes and suspense construction, there is no shortage of plot modes from going out to finding or killing to being rescued, so the British director Hypworth made "The Righteous Savior" ninety-nine years ago.
However, in "Guide Blind Size Q", it is almost impossible to see such a colorful and inky paragraph. Even the five separations of small qs deliberately emphasized in the film as shown in the five-act stage:
At the first time, I left my mother dog and went to my adoptive parents' house. The second time he left his adoptive parents and went to the center to receive blindness training. The third time he left the center and came to the owner Watanabe's house. The fourth time he left his master (due to Watanabe's death) and returned to the center. He left the center for the fifth time and returned to his adoptive parents' house and died unscathed.
A story about loyal dogs, plain and warm. However, although the whole story looks bland, it is full of emotions, all the stories are easy to tell, sadness and sadness are hidden in the blandness.
In particular, although the depiction of the relationship between Xiao Q and the blind master Watanabe is also delicate and vivid and touching, it is not too much rendering, so the life and death separation between the two of them that should have been torn apart has been calmly taken by a few strokes, without too much shock. Only the scenes in which Xiao Q dies at the end are slightly sensational.
Using close-ups and upgrading stunts to show that the old dog could not move his steps and finally fell, there were adoptive parents Renjing and his wife who guarded the dying little q like their own children and said emotionally:
"Rest!" Go to heaven and clearly report your name—Nijing Koru! ”
Amplifying the theme of the film with delicate emotions shows the superb technique of the director. But if you expect to cry several handkerchiefs, you may be disappointed, one is enough. Director Cui Yangyi's talent for telling stories in the midst of record and blandness is also reflected in films such as "In the Prison". By the way, it is a rare alternative masterpiece in a prison genre film.
In "Guide Dog Q", it is regrettable that Q's loyalty has lacked love in his life. Therefore, this loyal and hard-working, slightly thick and rarely naughty, lively and even romantic loyal dog will naturally make people think of a certain national comparison with japanese people, especially traditional Japanese men - this is definitely not far-fetched.
However, director Choi Yang is Korean, and has become the most important expatriate director in contemporary Japan with the film "Where is the Moon" about the life of his compatriots in Japan, so some people have questioned the "good people" or "betrayal" of his position by the "good people" consciousness advocated by this film.
But then again, even if Cui Yangyi gave up the search and struggle for a certain national identity, it seems that there is nothing wrong with actively merging into the mainstream consciousness and discourse of the Yamato nation. Who said that directors of color must rebel against white culture? Female directors must make women's films?
What's more, at the time of the film's launch, Choi Also had a six-year-old masterpiece "Blood and Bone", which was released at the end of the year, which is a film about human nature and magic with the theme of Korean immigrants living in Japan as the protagonist.