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someone please answer this

posted 12 years ago by catlover11
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I posted another thread about this movie but no one has responded. I only saw the last 15 minutes, and I only know that the wife gave Hachi to the daughter b/c she was moving away. Why didn't the daughter and her family take care of Hachi instead of letting him stay at the train station. I think I would have done everything I could to try and get him to stay with me. And at least take food and water to the train station if he wouldn't leave. So the whole thing with the kid writing a story about Hachi didn't make sense since they seemed to just let him go. If the family had tried to get him to go home with them, wouldn't you think they would have mentioned it to the wife b/c when she saw Hachi at the train station she said "you're stilling waiting"? Wouldn't you think her family would have told her about him. That just didn't make sense to me.

[–] analisa99 12 years ago

After Parker died they did go get him. He escaped from new house and managed to find his way back to train station. They went and got him again but knew he was not happy without Parker. He NEEDED to be at the train station. He was let go again. When the wife finds him at the end, she's like 'you're STILL here' but not because she thought he had been there the whole entire time but because even after being let go he really did stay and wait. They made a good decision letting him go cause he really did go back and stay, never giving up hope that Parker would come off that train someday.

[–] poserpro 12 years ago

if the movie made just like everybody wants, then there wouldn't be a hachi story. Totally makes much sense.

[–] mlaiuppa 11 years ago

That's because you only saw the last 15 min.

They did go back to get him.

The dog kept escaping and going back to the train station. That's where he was happiest. Waiting for his master. The film was about loyalty.

The daughter understood that Hachi needed to be at the train station and it was cruel to lock him up. She loved him enough to allow him to find his own path.

The community around the train station all knew the professor and Hachi. They all looked after him, knowing the story of Hachi waiting for a master that would never return.

Watch the entire film. It will make much more sense.