![]() As for the hound-haters who’d prefer to stream Stephen King’s Cujo, about a rabid St. Through observing Denny, Enzo knows that racing can teach him about battling adversity and practicing patience in case you’re driving, er, in the rain. Enzo speaks his heart only to us about wishing Denny, just once, would drive him around the track, the wind blowing through his fur. #THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN TV#Enzo teaches himself about the world by taking careful notice of Denny at the track, sitting beside him at home watching videos of important races, and taking in a TV documentary about Mongolia, where Enzo dreams of spending his final days before transitioning into a human. And Ventimiglia contributes an emotional honesty that serves him well even when the plot sinks into marshmallow. Since the film covers a decade in the lives of its characters, two dogs take turns playing Enzo, at age 2 and 9. #THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN MOVIE#When the movie stalls, it’s Enzo to the rescue. When illness enters the picture (doesn’t it always?), Denny must fight for his rights in court against Eve’s singularly annoying parents, played by Martin Donovan and Kathy Baker. It helps that director Simon Curtis ( My Week With Marilyn, Goodbye Christopher Robin) is adept at dodging the worst clichés, as Enzo faces competition for Denny’s love from Eve (the excellent Amanda Seyfried), the woman he marries, and their daughter Zoe (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). Luckily, Ventimiglia - on a deserved third Emmy nomination for playing the doomed father Jack Pearson on This Is Us - brings sincerity and welcome humor to Denny, as Enzo gets caught up in plot complications laid on by screenwriter Mark Bomback ( The Wolverine, Outlaw King). The movie’s life lessons can be hard to take. ![]() ![]() A Dog’s Purpose also hit the jackpot, along with the likes of Benji, Beethoven, The Lady and the Tramp, Old Yeller and Isle of Dogs. Marley and Me, another doggie weepie adapted from a bestseller, grossed nearly $250 million worldwide. Sure, it’s a tearjerker - often shamelessly so - but that probably won’t hurt the box-office. But those in thrall to all things canine will surely cut some slack to the big-screen version of The Art of Racing in the Rain, with Kevin Costner, of all gruff megastars, doing the voice of a dog who longs to be human. No doubt there will be cynical moviegoers who’ll side with Stein’s agent about talking-pooch stories. Now the novel is a movie, with the same title and the same perspective. After said novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, spent 156 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its 2008 debut, Stein had the last laugh. ![]() Basically, better government would be served by better people.Author Garth Stein fired a literary agent who rejected his idea of creating an entire novel from the perspective of a dog. This would be not only a revision to government policy but to morality and philosophy at both the personal and global levels. Such an examination of conscience would require the many nations to reprioritize the interests of others, sometimes ahead of their own. government with power to settle disputes both diplomatic and military could prevent a WWIII.įailing the prevention of such a conflict, I believe (and hope) that a third world war would force a collective reevaluation of human morality. ![]() Unfortunately, the League’s structure and mandate prevented much productive agreement on issues because of both the required unanimous vote to enact policy and the inherent aversion of member countries to support any policy that did not suit its own interests. If the United Nations were actually to wield the power that Woodrow Wilson envisioned for it at one point, then perhaps a united front of nations prepared to use armed resistance against Adolf Hitler might have prevented, or at least delayed, WWII. takes its proper place as a sovereign world government. ![]()
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