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This movie is decent for low budget, but the ending is one of the worst i've ever seen. Low budget can still have a good story. Whoever wrote this has some issues in their own life. The ending is also a very unlikely scenario. A homeless guy gets robbed by a rich kid. Homeless people don't normally have anything valuable to steal. But this rich kid just happens to see the homeless man's pocket watch. Already not believable. The homeless man's dog then attacks the thief. Rich guy takes the homeless man to court to have his dog put down. He wins, and the dog is destroyed. He then kills himself by purposely freezing to death. Why? Why so dark? The man had just reconciled with his estranged son. He has so much to live for now. But the dog is more important than your son? Ridiculous.

I realize not every story can, or should, have a happy ending. But I find this ending unnecessarily dark and far-fetched. That has never happened in the history of humans. The author purposely made it extra dark, and had to make it a ridiculous unbelievable scenario to achieve that darkness. The dog helped him turn his life around. He quit drinking. Got a job. Stop living on the streets. Reunited with his estranged son. Good ending right? No, suicide because of a dog is better.

I thought it was interesting that authorities were unconcerned that Frank slept outside and drank alcohol everyday, nor were they concerned one bit about his diet.

Enter Cooper, a dog, and they get a complaint that Frank is feeding him garbage, so he has to change his life or risk losing Cooper. Talk about kicking a man when he is already down, and at least he was feeding Cooper!

Frank cleans up his act because he does not want to lose Cooper, so he gets a job. Without notice one night, the supervisor tells Frank he has to stay until 2 am to clean up after a party. Frank tells him he cannot work that late because of the place he is staying, the supervisor is unconcerned. As a result of him not getting back to the shelter by 10 pm, Frank has to sleep outside that night.

That same night a white thug attacks Frank, and lies about what happened to punish Frank and Cooper. Surprise, surprise, a white guy lying on a Black person to spite him for something he brought on himself!

Why did it not come out that the only reason Cooper attacked the white thug was because he robbed and beat up his person?

Lies told by white people often cost Black people their freedom or their lives. In this case, the lying white thug cost the life of an innocent dog, and because Frank was so distraught after losing his only companion, he took his own life. So in essence that white thug murdered Frank and Cooper.

I thought it was also interesting that when Frank was panhandling, people ignored him, but when he held the puppy in his arms people gave him DOLLARS, never mind just spare change he was asking for.

Among other things, this film reinforces that the lives of dogs are given more value than the lives of Black people.