An old adage says that we engage in relationships in order to have a witness to our lives, and what better witness to have than a dog? They’re eternally loving, loyal, nonjudgmental, and they’re relatively easy to train as long as you treat them nicely.
Knowing this, films have used dogs as important players for as far back as cinema began, from Rin Tin Tin to Lassie to Asta, all the way up to the iconic Brandy in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
But I would like to vouch for my favorite dog in all film, Arthur (Cosmo) in Beginners, for being the Platonic ideal dog that all other dogs should strive to be like.
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