For as long as I could remember, I had been searching for an ideal friend. But I have never really found the person who fitted my exacting requirements. There was always some flaw, too tall, too short, too outgoing, too shy, too insecure, too independent... As the years passed and the opportunities grew fewer, I had a mental image of the ideal friend as a plain jug containing a delightful mix of good companionship and intellectual stimulation, the shape, age and size of which no longer had any importance for me. I still felt that if I only turned this corner instead of that or boarded this bus rather than that one, I would find the ideal friend waiting for me and that we would reconize each other at once after the exchange of a few words. Ah, and a further complication was that I did not want anyone to think that I was pursuing them. It was therefore necessary to encounter the ide
男人无老婆，养只狗也能行。片子讲述一只狗和主人的伴侣生涯。这只狗最后先走一步，却让主人写了一本书来纪念，两个家伙都能由此名垂青史，也不辜负十几年的同甘共苦。本以为这样的作品应该煽情至观众黯然泪下，结果却是一个冷静得让人到处找痒痒挠儿的结局。这样的手笔确实挺英国的。
片子里面有很多很露骨的狗的性生活，画得不失幽默，但是这部分内容有点拖沓，看着看着不知道自己到底是在看人狗伙伴关系，还是在看动物色情片。给狗找对象成了电影的主要部分，伴随的是主人啰嗦怪癖的性格。那个絮叨劲儿确实让人想起常在英国公园里转悠，穿着皱了吧唧的西装，在寒风里用手绢呜呜地擤鼻涕的英国老大爷。
片子从头到尾有旁白讲述，动画仿佛是插图。说是传统风格，却也有形式上的突破。总体感觉，动画设计有很多有意思的细节。画面中有很多英国元素，红公共汽车、黑色出租车、泰晤士河，还有那个有名的Batersea电厂....一看就是要给美国人看的片子。不过，居然出现明显的史实错误：那种后开口的红色公共汽车（Routemaster)是在1956年才开始在伦敦使用的
明明是美国制造，却制造得一派英伦风情，手绘彩的风格简单随意，倒是衬出这部片子的朴素动人来。
我们习惯了日本人的细腻，却忘了其实英国人也很擅长写“小事”，当年一部《导盲犬小Q》赚进无数泪水，这部改编自英国小说的老人与狗却是一派千帆阅尽后的风轻云淡，自嘲，嘲人，最后是一点点的温暖，是老年人的知足常乐。
开头一句已经道尽人世：英国人不会爱人，所以都爱养狗。是典型的英国式自嘲。
一个年过五十的鳏夫，收养了一只不宜驯养的小狗Tulip，自由散漫的老人对狗没有约束力，Tulip便个性无比，尴尬无奈不足为道。在数次受到兽医的嘲讽后，他终于遇到了一位有经验的兽医女士，也是第一次，因为Tulip的胡闹打骂了她。老太太说，把狗给我。他交出绳索，老太太牵着它进了诊室。一会儿，她出来，他奇异于狗异乎寻常的安静。她说：没关系，你的狗性格很好，她是这样的爱你，所以在你在的时候，总是很强烈地想守卫你，仅此而已。
还是女性了解女性啊。
终身未婚的老人，和Tulip的关系，其实有点像情人，又有点像父女。因为像情人所以对她宠溺放纵
It was Roger Ebert's highly favorable review led me to this little animation dog film, adapted by Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Fierlinger from J.R.Ackerley's 1956 memoir with the same title, voice over by Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini. Released June 10, 2009.
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“牧羊犬郁金香”因为无法与人相爱，英国人把爱给了狗。——乔-伦道夫-阿克利
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