A valentine’s day’s movie：Marley and Me @ 逗點之後仍是，逗點，Ｌｏｌｉｔａ

February 15,2009

A valentine’s day’s movie：Marley and Me

If somebody asked the person who was me five years ago (please tell her that I miss her badly!):”What do you want to do on valentine’s day?” Maybe a romantic dinner and a special present would be excellent. However, for those of us who are married, it’s simply another day-- You have no choice but to spend it with nobody else except your statutory partner.

So, we went to the recently-released movie: Marley and Me. The plot is as following from WIKI:

Told in first-person narrative, the book portrays Grogan and his family's life during the thirteen years that they lived with their dog Marley, and the relationships and lessons from this period. Marley, a yellow Labrador Retriever, is described as a highly strung, boisterous, and somewhat uncontrolled dog. He is strong, powerful, endlessly hungry, eager to be active, and often destructive of their property (but completely without malice). Marley routinely fails to "get the idea" of what humans expect of him and at one point the comment is made that mental illness might be a plausible explanation for his behavior. His acts and behaviors are forgiven, however, since it is clear that he has a heart of gold and is merely living within his nature.

I am not a dog person; on the contrast, I’m afraid of dogs very much. But Mr.Liu( my date for today.）has always desired to own a dog. So a slow sly smile was creeping around the corner of my mouth： “Shall we see what life would be like with a cute dog!”

From the first year of marriage onward, people may go through a long and tough process. Whether to have a baby or not? To buy a house or not? How to deal with your spouse’s relatives and parents? Which one is more important when the self and home are fighting? Could you forget the dream when you were single? And to search for a satisfying job to support a family, etc. It’s not easy, but if you are lucky, your partner of this life will stand by you and meet the same problems, and John Grogan is more lucky（or unlucky?）because of having Marley.

I laughed out loud in places and tears came silently in other places during the movie.

As other people are aware, a dog’s lifespan is much shorter than ours. But another sad point is: we can’t change the time that’s passed. So it is very important to love when you can love, to give freely when you can; to live with the difficulties and never say you’ll give up in life; likewise marriage.

“It’s not easy, but worthwhile”, that’s what I learned from this movie; and perhaps the same is true for life and marriage. I told Mr. Liu that since we could feel what it would be like to have a dog from the movie, there’s no need to have a dog in our true life! Hah!