Saw this film on Wednesday evening. It was strangely intriguing, about a widow who's down on his luck after losing his job and not getting on so well with his family situation (he lives with is daughter and her good for nothing husband)... Through an act of kindness he acquires a dog and the rest of the story is about how his luck begins to change. A good story, different, a bit melancholy in a way but actually very watchable. Maybe I was tired at the end of a long day but the thought that this story could have been made into a short film with the same effect did cross my mind...

What I found most interesting about the story was how trusting the characters were. For example, the widow is spotted at a gas station by a man who offers him work as a security guard (after seeing the widow's dog). The widow follows the man to the factory, agrees to stay there for a few days to guard the stock of cotton that the employer has sold and is waiting to have collected. Another example is when the widow offers a lady he meets at a restaurant a ride home and she invites him in for coffee, striking up a friendship thereafter and yet another example is where a dog trainer takes the widow's prize-winning dog for a few days, leaving the widow in a diffrent city alone. What's refreshing is that there is none of the 'big city paranoia' in this film that notion of 'you can't trust people you don't know'. Relationships seem to be almost accidental, fleeting, transitional in this film but what I liked was the fact that people interacted with each other with their hearts and not necessarily their minds... there's barely any suspicion of others and that's what was refreshing to see.