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Parkers daughter and husband... and the wife

posted 10 years ago by JoeyBagOfDonuts
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I hope I would never come back as a dog and have to endure living with them after my master and best friend were to pass on.... oh wait... I wouldn't have to, cause they would basically just forget about me.

And can you believe the nerve of the daughter and her husband... to get their son another dog (same breed!) and name it Hachi... yeah, makes sense, since they both really loved Hachi and really took care of him after Parker passed on. Nice people...

Brains are good, especially when sauteed with carmelized onions.

[–] Prelude-in-C-maj 10 years ago

I know, right?! I just saw this movie today, and although I enjoyed it and I cried, I couldn't believe that bitch of a wife and also the daughter! Who DOES that???

I know they are only fictional characters but....you a-holes!!!!  

[–] JoeyBagOfDonuts 10 years ago

As the movie was based on real life events... I wonder... did the real people behave that way towards Hachi.

Brains are good, especially when sauteed with carmelized onions.

[–] Elder_Yautija 10 years ago

In the original film, which is much closer to the way things went in real life, the dog was given in custody to a friend, but ran away on the first night to go back to the station. He was brought back home and escaped again the night after.
After that, the wife took him in, and he once again escaped. No matter where they took him, the real Hachi would always find his way back to the station.
After a while, it became clear that all Hachi wanted was to wait at the station for his master. So they let him go. Nothing wrong with that, especially when they knew that the people who worked around the station would feed him and be kind to him.
The dog had chosen his own destiny, and there was no trying to talk him out of it.

[–] psdhart 10 years ago

And can you believe the nerve of the daughter and her husband... to get their son another dog (same breed!)

I agree, I think it was the daughter the daughter who said something along the lines of "a dog has got to do what it has to do" when letting him out the gate

[–] JoeyBagOfDonuts 10 years ago

that is just a plain cop out. my dog loves to run away from me like its a game, but I never let him do it for fear that he would get lost or killed

[–] spaceagegal 10 years ago

The dog bonded to his master and there was no amount of loving that was going to make him love anyone else. His destiny was to be there, at that train station, until he died. That was home for him.

[–] chiluvr1228 10 years ago

The whole time I was watching the end of the movie I kept wishing that Richard Gere's family would have shown Hachi his dead body so the dog would understand that he was not coming back.

[–] bwestbroker 8 years ago

The dog bonded to him only because Gere was the only one to give him any attention of affection.