The film Always by Your Side, starring actor Richard Gere, features a dog’s great love for its owner and is based on a true story about Hachiko, an Akita Japanese dog who, after the death of its owner, spent nine years waiting for him. at the station where I took the train every day to go to work.
The story was so moving and had such a social impact among the population that they decided to create a bronze statue in honor of the faithful dog, located in Shibuya station, where the dog waited every day for its owner. Hachiko died a year later at the foot of his own statue.
- A puppy of the Akita breed is sent by its Japanese breeder to the United States upon request.
- During transportation.
- The dog cage falls out of the vehicle and ends up at a train station.
- Where a college professor named Parker Wilson (Richard Gere) finds him lost and slightly injured.
He’s trying to help you and know where to leave you. He talks to the station controller, but puts obstacles in him to stay with him, so he decides to take him home until he finds the owner who wants him. The days pass and nadie. se complaint of the puppy, nor does anyone find anyone to adopt him. Professor Parker is attached to the animal, but his wife opposes being with him, until a beautiful bond between the puppy and the teacher begins to emerge. her husband loved the puppy, eventually agreed to be with him all the time.
After days of play and mutual affection, the teacher and the bitch established a strong bond to the point that when she had to go to the teaching position in college, “Hachi?”As he called his dog, he accompanied her every day to Later, he was still waiting at the same station, to meet them after work and go home together.
Parker had done his best to keep his pet at home while he went to work, but nothing worked; the dog fled to accompany him to the station and from there he would not move until his owner had finished his day at work and returned to the station.
One day, while teaching in college, Professor Parker suffered a heart attack and died instantly. Your dog has been waiting for you at the station for hours until a father brings the animal home. However, the next day, Hachi fled and returned home. the station to wait for its owner, and remained there day and night.
Professor Parker’s wife sells the house, moves in with her daughter and also takes the dog, however, the dog flees back to the old house, but seeing that another unknown family lived there, she returns to the station in search of her beloved deceased owner.
There he waits hours and hours, but seeing that his owner does not show up, wanders and sleeps under an abandoned wagon, he survives thanks to a hot dog salesman, a friend of the late Professor Parker who feeds him.
Years pass and, day after day, Hachi continues to go to the station every morning to wait for his owner and thus spends the long days of his life. Professor Parker’s family witnessed the fact that after many years, Hachi continued to wait for his owner. owner at the usual station, looking old and weak.
Finally, on a cold night under a train car, the animal dies for a few moments before dreaming of its owner’s presence at the station. The daughter of the deceased teacher tells her 10-year-old son the sad story of her father. and his faithful pet. The child learns what true love and loyalty is, and tells the school in an exercise where he has to explain who he considers a hero.
A film that will surely not leave animal lovers indifferent, because it is very moving and dramatic, teaches us that love, loyalty and friendship can be infinite and that the animal world is not exempt from it.
Do animals feel the same emotions that we love, are happy, are sad, mourn losses, celebrate reunion?The thing is, the way you express emotions is different, but they feel totally like anyone else.
Let us take care of the animal world and remember that if they cannot speak, they feel pain, they have emotions and their great loyalty can surprise, like that of the hero of this touching film.