Saw My Life as a Dog, a sweet coming of age film about a little boy who is sent to live in a remote town with his uncle's family due to his mother's poor health. In this new remote town, he makes friends and has fun, haunted and troubled by his mother's illness and the chaos it brings to his life. He deals with the sweet and the bitter, trying to resolve them in his mind.
The film is one of those coming of age films that are sweet and melancholy, acknowledging the pain in the protagonist's life, but stridently dusting him off and hustling him on to new adventures. We ruminate, but we don't mope. The child's view of the world is accepting but uncertain. Is this the way things are? Or just how they happen to be?
I enjoyed the film okay. It didn't make a huge impression on me, but it's a serious and kindly film. You could watch it with your parents if you wanted.
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