Never Give Up

This afternoon, I saw a movie called 'Marley and Me' and actually the film is based upon the novel version which was published in 2005 and I read the book during last summer. There is almost pointless to compare the book and movie versions as the former usually outperformed the latter. For the movie version, a number of episodes has to be twisted and everything single detail that happens in the book may be squeezed to very different form in order to make the pace of the movie much faster and appealing to audience.

Back to the story, the film is about a couple, both journalists, who were newly wed and attempted to raise a dog before considering taking greater responsibility to raise their own kids. Having visited a farm, the coupled decided to purchase 'a bargain dog' which is a breed of Labrador Retriever. It was the beginning of the couple's nightmares. When Marley was home, he could ruin everything one could imagine, chewing sofa, scratching the floor, breaking the window and eating the whole remote control! He was extremely devastated to the thunderstorm and reacted extraordinarily abnormal. This little devil no doubt gave a lot of troubles to the couple.

Finally, the couple had 3 kids. While raising Marley and 3 kids, the couple felt very frustrated and tired. Once, they were determined to give up and did not want to keep Marley anymore. Having a second thought, the couple thought it wouldn't be a complete family without Marley despite his naughtiness and misbehavior as he witnessed the growth of the family. At last, they stayed with him until he passed away. The story is obviously a sad one. However, the underlying message is pretty clear that in our life, things are always difficult and sometimes insurmountable. If we insist on overcoming them, we will succeed eventually!