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ClassicLady

Very touching. Loved the comparisons of the sweet little dog's life (both Laika and Sicken) to life in general and how it helps the child grow up. This is life.
11 years 1 month ago
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Siskoid

As My Life as a Dog shows, chaos breeds chaos, or so it would seem from the life of Swedish 12-year-old Ingemar, who has a real knack for getting into trouble. At least, while he lives with his mother and brother in a home that's less than nurturing. The mother is clearly overwhelmed, and she's ill to boot. So when Ingemar goes out to live with an aunt and uncle in another town, so as to give his mom a break, he finds order and support he never knew before. And he's at an age where he's becoming interested in sex, and those opportunities open up to him as well. Coming of age movies like to play it older, teenagers coming into adulthood, but My Life as a Dog dares show us the previous coming of age, from childhood to adolescence. All our experiences work to make us who we are, and it fits that part of the setting includes a glassworks, and that a recurring joke is about a man who never stops working on his house's roof. As the title ironically suggests, it's a film about shaping identity, and it includes a very interesting character in Saga, a tomboy who poses as a boy to play soccer, at least as important to the themes of the story as Ingemar is. For him, it's really a question of asking who he is without the chaos. Does he have to be troublesome? Is that just a matter of environment? Or is he stuck with it? A very complex portrait of the end of childhood.
4 years 9 months ago
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PaulC138

Ingemar got a lot more action than I did at his age; Good movie.
8 years 6 months ago
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sammysin

One of the funniest and touching movies I've watched in years.
12 years ago
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My name long game

Absolutely fantastic
12 years 10 months ago
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