The curious Japanese drama Quill: The Life Of A Guide Dog follows a seeing-eye dog from birth to death, as it goes through the various phases of weaning and training before forming a trusting and loving relationship with its human companion. Though it would be impractical to spend 12 or 13 years chronicling the dog’s life, in all other ways Quill would make more sense as a documentary, because it could detail these procedures and relationships without staged scenes or narrative contrivances. But Quill is a fiction and a uniquely stilted one at that, absent of almost any dramatic tension and freighted instead with a sentimentality that an adorable, devoted Labrador can achieve without much help.
Beginning with shots of the newborn puppy stumbling around on its wobbly legs, Quill structures its journey in the “partings” that whisk it from its mother to first-year caretakers to a training facility ...
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