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For this dog, moving on is not a compliment

The emotional connection created between animals and humans is very beneficial to creativity

By Alessandro AlgardiPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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For most creators, the emotional connection between animals and humans is very useful for creativity. We all know a movie called "The Faithful Dog", for that film, successfully shaped a harmless dog, and successfully maintained the special feelings of human-dog love, the film is commercial, but it reflects certain humanistic care, and its care is recognized by most people. Therefore, that movie has become a classic. It can be seen that the key point for human and animal movies to become classics is to grasp a certain emotional resonance. After finding it, for the creator to find a source of inspiration.

The movie we recommend today is still based on this creative core. The Russian film "Parma the Faithful Dog" is about the emotional bond between humans and animals. A man who is about to apply for a job abroad has lost his animal quarantine certificate, so he has to abandon his dog at the airport. However, the dog named Palmer did not give up the search for his master, he made a home in the airport and waited for his master to come back bitterly. Meanwhile, a divorced captain is about to face the problem of living with his son whom he has never met. The captain's ex-wife died, and his son can only live with himself, but the captain is very career-oriented, and he does not like his son to become a burden to himself.

The story of the film slowly unfolds between the child and the dog. The captain's son is faced with the same fate as the dog, and the person he was depending on is not treated with sincerity. This film gives a satisfactory solution by deriving this story. Everyone reaps a happy ending of their own. This ending depends on the dog to maintain.

The reason why "Parma the Faithful Dog" is accepted and recognized by the audience is because of these points: firstly, it is about people, secondly, it is about animals, and finally, people and animals live in harmony and have a satisfactory ending.

As for people, the setting of Palma fits the personal encounter of the young protagonist Nicholas. Because of his parent's divorce, his mother raised him alone until he was nine years old, but her mother, who died unexpectedly, could not watch Nicholas continue to grow up. Nicholas had no choice but to be sent to his father. He had not met his father several times since he was born, and it was unacceptable for Nicholas to be told that he was his father by such a stranger. What was even more unacceptable was that Nicholas had to deal with a father who was a workaholic.

For Nicholas' father, work is his dream, and his dream is untouchable, no matter what it is, it has to give way to his dream, his ex-wife is like this, and his son is even more so. For a man with no sense of family responsibility, the arrival of a strange son is just adding some unnecessary burden to himself. He may not be so comfortable with his life.

For this family, how to get along with their father and how to accept their son is the primary problem, and the importance of solving this problem for this family cannot be overstated. However, the problem showed no signs of relief until Palma appeared, even to the point of being in a dilemma, but then the accident happened, and Palma came to this airport.

The connection between Palma and her master is a very strong one, even though the ending we see later repeatedly tells the audience that Palma's master is not worthy of Palma's loyalty. But is this the case? If his owner did not like the puppy, how could he have thought of insisting on bringing his pet with him when he applied for a job abroad, and how could he have thought of using all his breath to enthrone the puppy when the quarantine certificate was lost? When we stand on the moral high ground to condemn this dog owner but forget that he is also an ordinary person, he also needs to put his life in place.

When Palma in the final moments with Nicholas hard to part, the dog owner is also caught in a dilemma, on the one hand, he has no way to turn back on this road set up by others, on the other hand, Palma with their original owner will be a good ending? So, the dog was given a new life, the story came to a successful end.

The last point is the maintenance between humans and animals. When we talk about names like a loyal dog, we are naturally putting ourselves on some kind of moral high ground. As the current master of the earth, when he is faced with animals below his level, he naturally has a sense of moral superiority, this sense of superiority is expressed in the airport when the leaders hear the story of the dog, even if it is a very disgusted dog, he can also pretend to like for their benefit. In this regard, the so-called moral values of humans are indeed inferior to dogs.

The connection between dogs and people says another layer of meaning is the film's finally letting go, for Nicholas, his mother is the most loving person, but he could not return to his mother's embrace, for Palmer, his original master is his favorite person, but in the end, the master came, but he could not continue his old feelings. But when Nicholas' father changed his old way of life and started over, and when Nicholas and Palma finally became close friends who would not be separated, these emotions seemed to open up all of a sudden, and the right person had the right feelings, which is the most important expression of this film. If there is no deep love, then banish your emotions and let him find the one he can love deeply, perhaps this is the original intention of "Parma the Faithful Dog".

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Alessandro Algardi

And I know it's long gone and there was nothing else I could do

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