I have heard some people carry on about the “positive” messages about the dog being loyal, and how much I might appreciate it when I get older. “My dad I have loved, "Hachi” I have hated”.(Look up Romans 9:13 to see what reference I'm making in the sentence with quotations.) So, if you think I’m blaming my dad, I’m not. I tried looking through every channel on TV, while my dad was sound asleep, and I still COULDN'T get it out of my head! It was stuck in my brain like Gorilla Glue! My story isn’t over yet! I stayed up all night, trying everything possible to forget about it. By the way I still know how it ends, spoiler alert: he goes to the train station every day until his life is over. He had the perfect response, “It sucked!”. But I still felt I had to make sure my dad enjoyed it. So, the only thing I can say was “Hasta la vista, Hachi!”. My dad turned it off because we couldn’t take it anymore! Then, I was relieved.
Then, “surprise”, I cried! I’ll assure you if I pulled a SpongeBob and challenged myself not to cry for 24 hours, turning this movie on would be a mistake! It tortured me until I couldn’t take it anymore! It was so painful, I felt like I was being electrocuted, like the beginning scene in Ghostbusters. It just gets worse when Hachi’s at the train station waiting for his master, though his master never returned. But before you stop reading, that’s not the worst part. Not only was that sad, but it brought back some tragic memories. Then, they get to the scene where they’re at the funeral. Then, all of the sudden, spoiler alert: Richard Gere's character plays the piano, then collapses to the ground and dies of a heart attack. He thought that he remembered some comic relief in there, but it turns out, we were both wrong.
His response, “Don’t care!”, then he carelessly turned it on. We found “Hachi”, then when he starts to turn it on, I reminded him that he warned me a long time ago that this movie was sad.
What happened was, when I was 10, it was September of 2015, me and my dad were desperately looking for a movie. The rating system should’ve been way more sensitive. is cry! To me, it’s just a depressing movie that has no purpose except to rip kids’ little hearts out! That’s why I’m surprised it got a “G” rating. This one crossed the line! I will say this, the only thing this movie inspires you to do. Note to parents, tender-hearted children have no business watching this movie! There’s a certain point of depression in movies that’s unwatchable for me. However, this is not a movie I recommend because I had a horrible experience! One word to describe this movie: C-R-A-P-P-Y! By the way, I only gave this blubber-fest movie 12+ because it made me pick an age, and it’s still heartbreaking for a 10 year old.