"These are the simple rules. No barking, now growling, you will not lift your leg to anything in this house. This is not your room. No slobbering, no chewing, you will wear a flea collar. This is not your room. No begging for food, no sniffing of crotches, and you will not drink from my toilet. This is not your room."
Detective Scott Turner
Turner & Hooch
1989
We look at this film and think; yes, a dog is truly a man's best friend/partner and detective in crime. Tom Hanks portrays Detective Scott Turner and is tasked with the adoption of a murdered man's dog in a hunt to find the killer, and find justice.
This film reminds me of a few things... slobber and friendship. Along with the seriousness to the storyline to bring justice to the victim, we look at why sometimes using the closest thing to a victim will solve the crime, and how we can find solace for the deceased.
Hooch was one of those characters that either reminds us of a dog we had, wish we could have, or have lost. Hooch complemented Detective Turner in various ways, and showed us that sometimes friendship goes beyond appearances and dependency can turn deep into acknowledgment.
The question ponders the mind, have we realized after the fact that perhaps we are working too hard by not realizing that the work would be simpler if we just stopped trying so hard?
Ok.. its a long shot, but, seriously, sometimes over-thinking, over-analyzing and over-exposing the problem just leads to continued anxiety and stress and unhappiness. It is one thing to think the world is revolving and ever-changing, but, sharpening those pencils and tightening those belts can only make numbers seem less impressive and facts valuable.
Tom Hanks' character possessed this type of intuitive matter that perhaps over analyzing and over thinking a choice is often worse and unproductive as just accepting the circumstances and progressing substantially with adaptability. Most believe change is a catalyst to the inevitable understanding of conforming. But, once we compromise our integrity for the sake of a heightened sense of the senses, we realize that the visual representation is mirrored by our visual misrepresentation.
Dogs are intuitive, I just wish I know what they really are saying. Because you know, they've walked in on occasion and I have to laugh, because if dogs could talk... oh boy we'd be in trouble.
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2. Watching this film, who'da thought this guy would have two Oscars within a decade.
3. You don't want to know what pets think. We used to have a cat who glared at me. I was convinced she was thinking, "Oh, if I only had opposable thumbs..."
Scanner. ... change is inevitable.. I guess it is all about being comfortable with the uncomfortable. You rock man!!!
Friendship is powerful, a dog becomes that confidant.