On September 15, "A Dog's Purpose" officially started small-scale screenings in North America.
The scale is small, with only 100 screens available for screening on the first day.
Although "A Dog's Purpose" can only be said to be a mid- to low-cost film in North America, this film is not without attention.
After all, although Li Yi is not particularly famous in North America, although "The Story of Hachiko" did not hit theaters, the DVD sales were very good, and he has accumulated a lot of "dog movie fans"!
The name of the director of the short film "Moving forward with a heavy load" is still somewhat useful.
Therefore, the exposure of "A Dog's Purpose" is pretty good.
In addition, this schedule is not a particularly popular one, so it actually allows "A Dog's Purpose" to avoid the fiercest competition for eyeballs.
Most of these 100 screens are ordinary screening venues, but there are also some special screenings mixed in!
It is not an exclusive event for media and film critics, but an exclusive event for specific audiences.
For example, in a theater in Los Angeles, a special screening of "Pamperless Audiences" is being held at this moment.
In this screening, as the name suggests, the audience watching the movie are all pet-free audiences, and they are all audiences who do not have pets.
Billy is one of them.
In the cinema, the movie hasn't started yet, and many viewers are chatting in low voices.
Sitting on Billy's left was a couple.
"So, dear, are you bringing me to watch this kind of movie to convince me to allow you to keep a dog?" the wife asked with an evil look.
"Of course not, I just happened to get two free movie tickets!" The husband said decisively, as if everything was an arrangement of fate.
"No matter what, I still don't agree with you keeping a dog! Just give up, my dear! I made an agreement before we got married! No children, no pets!" said the wife indifferently.
"Of course, dear, I said, we are just watching a movie together. If you don't like me keeping pets, then is it okay to watch pet movies?" The husband nodded.
"OK!" The wife nodded.
In fact, in the United States, there are indeed many pet lovers here, but there are also many people like Billy who don't like pets, or even don't like having children.
The lights in the screening room suddenly dimmed.
Pictures appeared on the big screen.
A slightly playful voice sounded:
"what is the meaning of life?"
"What are we born for?"
"Why should we live?"
After hearing these three questions, many viewers looked like: "Crazy! What the hell kind of philosophical question?"
But the next moment, when several little puppies appeared in the picture without opening their eyes, the audience couldn't help but look shocked.
The voice continued: "At first, I didn't know what was going on. I couldn't see anything!"
Only then did everyone realize that it was actually a dog who said this?
The little puppies who didn't open their eyes huddled together: "It's very warm!"
Then the mother dog appeared and licked the puppies.
The playful voice became very excited and said: "This is my mother!"
The scene changes! The grown-up dogs are running, chasing, and playing.
"I have a great time every day!"
“Is living a happy life the meaning of life?”
"The whole point?"
Many viewers in the theater couldn't help but smile.
is not that right? For dogs, isn’t living a happy life the meaning of life?
But in fact, when you think of people, why is it not the case?
"No, it's definitely not that simple!"
Then, while playing, the dog was caught by the dog squad.
"Then it's over! No more fun!"
Everyone in the theater was stunned!
Billy was also a little dumbfounded, what the hell? Is it over?
Finish spreading flowers?
Of course that can't be the case.
The screen went black!
The voice sounded again: "It seems like this life is too short!"
It was a little confused and said: "Have I done anything?"
is not that right? You were playing around, and then you got caught, and then you got cold feet. Didn't you do nothing?
Then, when the screen appeared again, there were a bunch of little puppies with their eyes closed.
Especially that voice that says, "I'm back! I'm a puppy again!"
Only then did everyone understand what was going on. Can this dog be reincarnated?
It seems like the movie is starting to get interesting.
There are actually many movies about human reincarnation, but as for dogs, this is really the first time!
"I'm alive and ready to think about life's big questions! Get to the bottom of it!"
It was originally a serious topic, but the next moment, the little puppy's voice accompanied the picture and became very funny.
It squeezed hard, trying to reach the position where it could drink milk.
"Let me in first!"
The scene changes and the dog has grown up again and is locked in a dog cage.
It escaped from the cage, and before it could jump around a few times, it was caught by two bad guys who planned to sell it to make money. It can be said that it had just left the tiger's den and entered the wolf's den. On the way, the two bad guys suddenly became hungry, so they left the dog behind. Went to eat in the car.
The dog locked in the car is still thinking about the meaning of dog life: "I am thinking about my life. I still have many unsolved problems, but I only have one problem now, how can I drink water?"
The sun was shining on the car, making the temperature inside the car higher and higher. The dog was so thirsty that he drooled and rolled his eyes!
Just when it was almost suffocating in the car!
At this time, the male protagonist Ethan appeared. As if by fate, he heard the dog's barking and found the dying dog locked in the car.
He and his mother broke the car window to rescue the dog and took the dog home.
It opened its eyes and saw Ethan, who was still a little boy!
Ethan woke up when he saw it, shouting excitedly.
"What is going on? A little boy? I never knew there was such a little boy in this world!" The dog looked a little confused! But it knew that it was the little boy in front of him who saved him!
The little boy said to his mother: Can we raise it? when.
But the dog said: "At that moment I decided that I must raise this little boy!"
"Hahaha!"
There was a burst of laughter in the theater.
In order to win his father's approval, the little boy Ethan talked about the benefits of dogs.
But his father still disagreed. He thought that children were only three minutes old, but in the end, with his mother's persuasion, he agreed to let Ethan get a dog.
From then on, the dog got its name, Bailey!
Ethan made Bailey his own dog tag!
"One word repeated so many times, Bailey Bailey Bailey...I began to understand the importance of this word!"
"I raised a boy, his name is Ethan!"
"I also have a name, Bailey!" Ethan hugged him and played!
"I know my status in this family, my mother likes me!" Ethan's mother smiled at it.
"Dad likes me!" But it's obvious in the picture that dad still doesn't like it!
"I feel really sad for the cat. It's obvious that he wants to be a dog, and it's not my fault that he can't!"
In the years that followed, it kept company with Ethan, played, and listened to Ethan's stories under the quilt...
"Every day after I fall asleep, I feel so happy to have an Ethan! I am also glad that I am not a cat!"
They play together, sleep together, play ball together, and grow up together!
Bailey also learned a trick. Ethan threw the ball up high, and then squatted down. Bailey quickly put it on Ethan's back, jumped up high, and caught the ball in the air!
While Ethan went to school and his mother was out, Bailey had a cat-dog fight with the cats at home.
Make a mess at home!
This pissed off Ethan's dad, who had never liked Bailey!
Especially when Bailey messed up the banquet hosted by Ethan's father for a family gathering, Ethan's father was completely angered and threw Bailey out of the house!
But at night, Bailey quietly ran back to Ethan's room.
"I know Ethan needs me, and I need Ethan!"
In the blink of an eye, Ethan grew up and became a popular football quarterback! He is very talented!
Bailey is smart, a teammate who is jealous of Ethan, teasing Ethan about always bringing his dog with him, does he think of him as his girlfriend?
As a result, Bailey went around and tripped the guy.
While going out to play, Ethan met a girl he had always had a crush on, but he didn't have the courage to strike up a conversation.
Bailey felt that the smell of Ethan's body changed after seeing the girl. He had no idea that it was a sour smell called "love".
So, it rushed over and helped Ethan lift the skirt of the girl he liked. Ethan was so frightened that he ran over quickly, but a misunderstanding had already occurred.
Ethan blushed and explained: "I'm sorry, that was a dog just now, not me! I wouldn't do that kind of thing!"
Hannah couldn't help but smile and said: "Maybe you should teach the dog some manners!"
Ethan said nonchalantly: "I'm trying hard, it, it's not too smart!"
But at this time, the little guy who made a mistake but waggled his tail without realizing it, with a silly look on his face and didn't know what his mistake was, immediately conquered the audience in the theater.
Especially Billy, his eyes were shining because in reality, like Ethan, he also had a crush on a girl, but he never dared to confess her love!
It would be great to have a dog like Bailey as a wingman!
With Bailey's matchmaking, Ethan and Hannah successfully got together.
The happy days continued like this. When Ethan and Hannah were kissing, Bailey actually came over to join in the fun and wanted to kiss!
It insisted: "Maybe there's something hidden in Hannah's mouth!"
But after returning home, Ethan saw his alcoholic father beating his mother again, and he angrily drove his father away!
When Ethan's cat died, they buried it, but Bailey dug the cat out and brought it back to Bailey's mother.
Bailey's mother was so frightened that she screamed loudly!
Bailey received a full college scholarship because of his strong athletic talent.
But this made the teammate who was jealous of Bailey even more jealous, so he even went to Ethan's house and set fire to it!
Although Bailey caught the arsonist with his sensitive nose, Ethan broke his leg when he jumped out of the window to escape!
Ethan, who had low self-esteem, chose to break up with Hannah.
Bailey really wants to keep Hannah, but she's just a dog. What can she do? There is absolutely nothing it can do!
Because Ethan broke his leg, he could no longer go to his original university.
After recuperating for a while, Ethan chose to study agriculture in a distant place in order to inherit his grandfather's farm!
On the day he was leaving, Ethan hugged Bailey and said, "You will miss me, right?"
But Bailey had no idea that Ethan was saying goodbye to it.
Ethan told his mother to take Ethan and said, "It can't understand this! It's best to hold it!"
Before leaving, Ethan threw the ball to Bailey and drove off to study far away!
Bailey bit the ball and watched Ethan's car go away. It suddenly broke away from Ethan's mother's hand and chased after Ethan crazily.
He kept chasing, chasing Ethan's car.
Ethan finally spotted Bailey, he stopped the car, and Bailey came out from far away and jumped directly in through the car window!
But in the end, Ethan left. He didn't know that seeing him again would be the last time!
"Humans are very complicated. They always do things that dogs don't understand, such as saying goodbye!"
Watching the dog Bailey standing on the road, looking at Ethan's car going away, he didn't want to leave for a long time.
Billy suddenly heard bursts of sobbing. The couple didn't cry, but the old lady on the other side of him kept sobbing.
And Billy's own eyes were red!
Bailey finally picked up the ball and went back, and it promised Ethan to help him guard this place.
It said: "Ethan and I are destined to be together. If there is no Ethan, what is the meaning of my life? Maybe the meaning lies in not looking for meaning!"
Ethan left, and what he didn't know was that Bailey was getting older.
Ethan said he asked Bailey to guard this place for him and wait for him to come back, but he didn't know that what he had experienced when he grew up as a boy was only part of his life, but for Bailey, it was his whole life.
Bailey didn't know whether he was involved in Ethan's life, or whether Ethan had accompanied him in his life?
Bailey, who is without Ethan, may be old, or maybe without Ethan, he has no interest in running.
He always lies in one place, thinking about Ethan.
Bailey's kidneys are beginning to fail, he's too old, and he's beginning to end his life.
"Everyone is sad, but I don't have the energy to make them happy anymore!"
Even at this time, he still thinks about making everyone happy. He has always been such a good dog, even if he makes mistakes sometimes.
But that’s more because I want to make everyone happy!
Its vision had begun to blur, but it seemed to hear Ethan's name again. It was Grandpa calling Ethan!
"Ethan, are you here?"
"I can't smell you!"
"Where are you?"
The screen goes black!
"Bailey!" Bailey heard Ethan's familiar voice.
Its nose moved, and it smelled Ethan's scent again, a smell it would never forget.
When Bailey opened his eyes again, he finally saw Ethan.
"He's here! I know he is sad, and I don't want to make him sad. I know that I came to this world for Ethan, to make him happy, and I don't want to leave him just like this..."
In Bailey's eyes, my Ethan, you are still young, but I am old... Under Ethan's gaze, his vision became increasingly blurry, and Bailey walked towards death.
Billy felt his nose was a little sore, and he thought that the old lady next door had made her eyes red from crying!
The lady on the other side who doesn't like dogs is leaning in her husband's arms with red eyes!
Billy thought maybe she wouldn't object to her husband having a dog anymore, right?
Billy himself wants to raise him. Even if he is not as smart as Bailey, maybe he can still help him pick up girls?
Just why do you want to cry so much?
The movie continues.
Bailey has a new lease of life.
It says, I'm back again!
but why? Where did Ethan go?
"Some things are missing too!"
It lowered its head and looked under its belly.
"Why didn't I..."
"What? I'm a girl?"
"Hahaha!" Billy and many viewers in the theater were so amused that they couldn't help but burst into tears!
It was Bailey’s reaction, so funny!
And the little look in his eyes when he looked down at his belly, and his reaction when he discovered that he had turned into a girl!
In this life, Bailey has become a majestic police dog!
Its owner is training it to find things, but in its eyes it says: "My owner is such a headache, he keeps dropping things!"
In this shitty life, she is given the mission to help humans solve crimes! She is always by her owner's side, standing on the podium to accept honors.
In this dog's life, there is no Ethan. Although she still misses Ethan, her owner is not Ethan!
She followed a police officer who "guarded an empty room alone" and started a boring life of training and solving crimes every day.
Although she did a great job, and although he always stood on the podium to accept honors, Bailey knew that he was still unhappy!
She knew he was lonely!
At night when her master was alone, she would always wag her tail and nuzzle into her master's room while sleeping in the kennel.
How much she looked forward to sleeping next to her master and keeping each other company silently, but the master always said no coldly. She blinked her eyes and lowered her head on the bed until the master finally said yes! She just jumped onto her master's bed and lay down happily next to her master. She finally didn't have to go back to her nest with her tail between her legs at night. The lonely master also had his companionship. Everything was wonderful, wasn't it?
The owner received the task of rescuing the hostages. She performed bravely during the task and successfully rescued the hostages who fell into the rapid river.
At the critical moment, she threw herself at the kidnapper and was unfortunately shot while trying to protect her owner.
The master who had always behaved coldly could no longer be cold at this moment.
He held the walkie-talkie and called for help with a trembling voice, but his tears couldn't stop falling!
"My dog got shot!"
"Repeat, the police dog has been shot!"
When he put down the walkie-talkie, his tears couldn't stop falling!
"Ellie, you'll be fine! You'll be fine!" The owner could only repeat this sentence helplessly.
"You are a good dog!"
"You are a good dog!" He repeated it again, but his voice was choker!
He was holding his pet dog in his arms. This man, who had always shown himself as a tough guy, finally couldn't bear it anymore and collapsed. He cried like a helpless child!
Because his dog is dying! There will never be another dog like her!
The camera changed to an overhead shot. The man was holding his pet dog. His body was shaking and sobbing!
In this life, just like human youth, she devoted her passion for work and fulfilled her responsibilities to her master and society.
She once again completed a special mission!
Unfortunately, this time there is no Ethan!
Luckily Bailey is reincarnated once again!
In the third life, there is still no Ethan.
But this time, Bailey turned into a cute little short-legged dog. In this life, his name is Tino. In this reincarnation, his owner is a foodie girl who doesn't like to socialize.
What Tino is best at is understanding the girl's food preferences. When the girl says "guess what I want," they can always agree on delicious food. He could always be by her side to make her laugh when the girl was lonely and cold.
ps: Old rules, big plot!
