Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
巴克是一只骨骼壮硕身材强壮的狗,本来在大法官家里过着养尊处优的生活的它,被园丁偷走,卖到了严寒的阿拉斯加,成为了雪橇犬。巴克坎坷的命运并没有就此终结,之后,它又辗转经历了好几个主人,他们残暴而又冷酷的对待巴克。不仅如此,巴克在狗群中也为了保住自己的地位而经历了巨大的挑战 。
这一次,约翰(哈里森•福特Harrison Ford 饰)成为了巴克的新主人,幸运的是,约翰是一个善良的男人,他不仅非常温柔的对待巴克,还治好了它伤痕累累的身体。随着时间的推移,一人一狗之间产生了坚实的友谊。然而,在一场意外中,约翰被印第安人杀死了,愤怒的巴克失去了理智,它要为自己的主人报仇。
巴克(约翰·坎迪 John Candy 饰)是一名快乐的单身汉,既然一个人生活,那么在日常中,他难免会大大咧咧笨手笨脚些。本以为一个人的生活会一直持续下去,谁知道某一日,哥哥鲍勃(加勒特·布朗 Garrett M. Brown 饰)和嫂子辛迪(Elaine Bromka 饰)邀请他到他们家做客,并且将他们的三个孩子托付给了巴克照料。
很快,巴克乐呵呵的个性便得到了年幼的梅兹(盖比·霍夫曼 Gaby Hoffmann 饰)和迈尔斯(麦考利·卡尔金 Macaulay Culkin 饰)的喜爱,只有正处于叛逆期的提亚(珍·路易莎·凯利 Jean Louisa Kelly 饰)依然对他十分的戒备和抗拒。但是没有关系,真诚总是动人的,随着时间的推移,巴克和三个孩子之间产生了真挚的感情。
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