It was really exciting to hear that we were going to watch a movie in class. At first I thought it would be some boring documentary that the class was going to watch, boy was I wrong. I really liked the film. It was a comedy film that did not have corny jokes, the class actually laugh pretty hard for a few of the jokes.
I enjoyed the movie a lot but while watching it I could not help but to think that there was something more to the movie than the jokes and the funny ‘accidents’ the characters get into. This feeling grew more when Prof. Kaufman asked what this film had to do with happiness. So I asked myself what did this film have to do with happiness?
Well in the film the 5 contestants for the Mayflower Dog Show said they were happy and that if they won the “Best In Show” title they would be even more happy. I did not think the same way. Especially for the Swan couple, they were seeing a psychiatrist because of their dog. Apparently their dog was upset all the time and was hard to handle, which somehow caused the couple to be grumpy and upset too. Just from the first scene that the Swan couple was introduced I already knew that they were not happy, they seem as if they forced their smile while saying they loved their dog. Near the end of the movie the Swan couple broke down resulting in a disqualification and it seems like I was right about them. In the end they got a new dog and seem genuinely happy.
Another thing I thought that was interesting about the movie was the ending. For the losers they seem to have found happiness outside of the dog show business and went into other areas still related to dogs. As for the Fleck couple it seems that everything is nice because they are now celebrities but Mr. Fleck meets another one of Mrs. Fleck’s old boyfriends. Mr.Fleck reacted the same way he did to the previous his wife’s ex-boyfriends; he was upset.
In the end the losers are happy and the winners are not? The winners who thought winning would be the best thing in the world to them because it would be like achieving a dream, end up unhappy. While the losers have their dreams of winning crushed are able to find happiness somewhere else.
Does this even make sense at all? Apparently so.
