I had watched this movie before when I was very young and did not quite understand the movie. This was my first time really watching it and I really enjoyed it. The plot was great following the contestants of a dog show, in mockumentary format. The cast was very funny including Eugene Levy who basically makes any movie hilarious by just entering the screen.

The movie also has it’s flaws. Sometimes it felt a bit silly and often had boring parts due to excssive talking. This is however necessary when creating a movie of this type.

The announcers at the dog show also were incredibly funny, as each question asked by comedian Fred Willard was hilarious. Overall the movie was great and shows that people often use other things in their life such as a dog to judge their own happiness, and that was the main idea of this film.

As a rating I would give this movie a 7/10

Christmas Eve 4:20 A.M.

and every body has never felt more alive

past time to sleep and rest

and too early to awaken

stuck in the midst of both

we sacrifice our sleep

for each other’s company

the night calls

through the first flakes of white peace

down the chimney

where children gather in huddles

talk and play and sleep and pray

for Santa and his toys

the living room is bursting

with a parade of family

not wanting to sleep

instead rejoicing within eachother’s company

on the electric boogie slide

making loud thumps

and shaking the house

so much

from amidst the overjoyed people

past the sweet aroma of coffee

brewing so early for the hurdle

and baking chocolate cakes

mixing with the sound of

delightful laughter

pleasant chit- chat

amusing rumors

sweet memories

across the porch and over the driveway

a beautiful gift

for the approaching neighbors

how impossible it is

to not be lured to live

The movie Best is Show was quite an interesting movie to me. I thought at first when I watched it that it was nothing more than just a dog show movie. It did not really satisfy to me how it can be about a dog show, when the director kind of rushed the dog show itself in the movie. I noticed that they actually got to the dog show pretty far in the movie. Aside the director did not really go into the details of the actual show. At first I kept thinking that it was a bad move of the director, to actually make a movie about dogs and not actually focus a lot of attention into the show itself.
Eventually I came to realize that there was more to this movie that meets the eye. The movie later became famous to me for a different reason, and it wasn’t the show but the actual obsession of people. What this movie had was character development. This movie really emphasized the different kinds of obsession that people have towards their dogs. Dog shows to me seem kind of pointless and I thought that people were just there to show off their dogs. I also thought that people were all the same inn how they treated their dogs. This movie had something in common with all the dog owners, and it was that they love their dog. But the difference was that they appreciated each dog in a very unique and funny way. If it wasn’t one that just talked a lot about the breed, but there were ones who made them look like humans themselves, or actually treat them as if it was a child they had. Interesting enough was that with one of the couples it was so insane to actually see how they treat their dog as if it was a God, someone they had to please with toys, or apologizing and going to therapy because they engaged in sexual intercourse. Знакомства
I really enjoyed this movie. It definitely made me laugh to see the kind of people that were in this movie. This movie made me realize that it was the same thing we have been reading in class as well. This movie has loyalty and sacrifice written all over it. The Birth mark by Hawthorne is somewhat similar to this movie, and not in the concept of giving up your life for someone else, but praising other living beings that exist in their lives. In this case their Dogs. Georgiana was willing to do anything in order to ensure happiness for Aylmer. Aylmer was the dog in this sense. Georgiana would treat this one particular dog as if it was her life. A dog in which she is willing on giving up her whole being just to make sure that dog is satisfied, clean and ready for the next show.

Seeing beyond pink-tinged glass

makes my eyes water

drops of happiness

and none of pain

Once I lived behind thick walls

that I built in earnest

my eyes cast downward

resolutely at the floor

desperately, to avoid any color

Seeing was not

really seeing to me.

It was only what I allowed myself to see

what my brain would allow.

And now the walls have crashed down.

I’m cold; there’s wind in my face

tears in my eyes

droplets of calm

after the storm.

I see the future

better than now

where my eyes do not hurt.

She’s insecure, unsure, in search of the perfect cure
But she knows she’s better than this
Striving, trying, attempting, struggling, putting heart and soul into
Deserving that assumed true love’s one immortal kiss

What has become of the one with the pink bow in her hair and smile on her face?
Nowadays what wretched heartbreak does she mourn in all black?
Treading mirror to mirror, looking for the one who will accept her no-longer innocent beauty
So that she can look at herself like she used to…she craves her old self back

The faux hair and deep makeup are all that define her now, how damaged
Can a person be…to not be able to see beyond the distorted reflection on the mirror
Is there not a slight bit of self-worth left?
A glimmer, a spark, a speck, not even a flicker?

Utter chaotic pandemonium of self-loath in the early morning
Which may only be cured through hours of heavy ornamentation
On good days. Gone are days of rosy-red innocent smiles at the ground
Now her cheeks adorn merely tainted carnation

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me now or not at all…
Do I perhaps, oh please, look at least passable today?”
“Sad, poor, baby, hush”…he says…” You’re my being…
I don’t care if you don’t…it’s okay,” he looks away.

Never good enough for you, it hurts, for you’re the one I love
Not a word I say goes unpunished; not a word you say goes unheard.
Every morning I wake, every night I go to bed, everyday
I want to be good enough for you, long enough you’ve suffered

Five years of self-punishment can lead to insanity,
Slit wrists, broken mirrors and a suicide note
Of all the blood-tainted mirrors and tear-etched pain severe
What mirror was too costly to keep her once-exuberant soul afloat?

Mifta Mahmud Cornea