jpOct 1, 2025
If dogs really had immortal souls, I doubt their first order of business would be narrating Hallmark fantasies for lonely humans. A Dog’s Purpose isn’t about dogs at all—it’s about insecure people's need for unconditional loyalty.
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https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a-dogs-purpose/
A Dog’s Purpose (2017)

It’s such typical anthropocentric arrogance to think that A Dog’s Purpose is to be eternally beholden to improve the quality of its masters’ lives, or that a dog would apprehend the world just like…

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Tom MulherinNov 9, 2022

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I teach #PhilosophyOfFilm and am into #film in general. In particular, I enjoy #FilmNoir, #NewGermanCinema, #NewKoreanCinema, and #JapaneseCinema. I'm always watching #Fassbinder and #RobertMitchum, and lately have been enjoying the horror movies on the Criterion Channel. I'm also in a reading group that is working through Cinema 1 by #Deleuze.