Hachi review by Lin

Hachi review by Lin

Hachi, adapted from a true story happened in Japan in 1935is a real story. It turned into a Japanese film in 1987 by Tatsuya Nakadai, which was a sensation in Japan. In December 2009, the American version of the film be on show that directed by Lasse Hallstrom.

Film is about a story between university professor named Parker and Akita a dog. Parker portrayed by Richard Gere, went home by train at night and he picked up a puppy (Akita) at the train station. He wanted to give the dog to the management office of station but was rejected by them; he can only helplessly take the dog home. Then because he cannot find the owner of the puppy so the protagonist has been to raise the akita in the side until it grows up. Because the collar of dog with a luck word ‘Hachi’ means the number of eight so this dog was called by Hachi. Once Hachi followed the smell of Parker to find out the railway station that commuters must go through, since then, Hachiko saw the host off every morning and five o’clock in the evening waiting for its master outside the train station on time, no matter rain or shine.

It becomes an acceptance that no need to make firm plan, a people and a dog become a scenery line into this border town. If no accident, this movie just an ordinary life film but the death of Parker send the story from boring to the moving. Nobody told Hachiko about that park has left the world forever and never came back again. Maybe even if told Hachi about this and he cannot understand, in his mind park just went to work as usual, but this time the time of working is very long and do not know when he will be back. So Hachiko does the same day after day, ran to the station in the evening and waiting for park, Hachiko looks forward to that may be his master will open the door and say "Hi Hachi’ like normal. So-called touch is need time to precipitation. The first day is just a natural thing, the second day and the third day may just be a habit. But the habit is a terrible thing, waiting for a hope year after year till the end of life that it still holding his hope. No one can say he has not been touched. Why we will be touched and why we will cry, it just because we know that Hachiko never less than he wanted happiness. And the most uncomfortable is that Hachiko forever keep there and watches a never coming reunion. Even if the whole world forgot Parker, Hachi would still remember him, choosing Parker is the most important decisions in Hachiko daily life. Since the sentence in the movie let me unforgettable until now, when the little granddaughter ask grandma that why the grandfather choose the Hachi to care, grandma said that not grandfather choose the Hachi but the Hachi choose the grandfather. The story of Hachi is tragedy and no one can change that, but its meaning is telling us to cherish what you have now and what you will have in the future.

At the end of film, Hachi had made such a dream, Parker comes back just like the memory in the best time, it is also like its young time running to his master…