Everytime I watch Hachiko, it never fails to make me cry. :( It makes me realize that somehow I've been taken for granted my Dulce for a while. I've been busy with other stuff, while she's just there waiting for me to cuddle her. I remember another dog story that the dog implied, "you master have friends, classmates and other people, but I only have you." :( I'm such a crbaby haha.
This had been a true story of a professor, Parker Wilson, who found a puppy, or the puppy had found him from the train station that leads to his home. He took the puppy home with the intention to find its owner the next day but no one would claim the pup. Longing for a friendly companion at home, the wife sees this from Parker and decided to let his husband keep the pup.
Hachi enveloped the term 'man's bestfriend' as he showed love and loyalty to his master. I was really moved when his master, Parker, died and wasn't able to continue his daily routine (to go to school and come home via the train station). Hachi continued to wait outside the train station expecting for his master to show up to the door, smiling and coming up to him calling his name. Even after the master's death, Hachi continued to do this the next day and for the next roughly nine years. He had aged, neglected, forgotten -- but he continued to wait on that same spot day to day with the positive thought that that door will swing open and his master with cheery eyes and smiling face excitedly walking up to him like it was just yesterday.
Hachi attached the sounds of the train coming that his master will be arriving at the station at the end of the day. This could be an operant conditioning that the dog connects the sound on something favorable to happen but still, he showed he had gone overboard with it. Hachi lived for his name, hachi means eight in english. The number symbolizes infinity and continuity. He had been loyal to his master as long as he had lived, even on his deathbed.
When you love someone, you tend to forget everything and concentrate on that person the moment that person is gone. You tend to neglect everything around you, everything will become a blur as you continue to strive to bring back that emotion, that happy feeling you feel when that someone is present. This is what happened to Hachi, being loyal to his master even though he will not come back. But then, Hachi doesn't know that. :|
I liked how they portrayed the perspective of Hachi. As have been said with dogs , they see the world -- in black and white.
