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Surname 1 Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date ‘Gates of Heaven’ Movie Review “Gates of Heaven" is a narrative about pet burial grounds and their owners. It was shot in Southern California, therefore, there is a cynical glance at the Moonbeam State's idiosyncrasies. However, at that point, this movie becomes a lot more confounded and terrifying, until toward the end. It covers enormous issues like eternity, love, failure and the hounded slipperiness of the American Dream. The movie is so rich and intriguing, it accomplishes a lot with seemingly small effort and thus, remains in a viewer's brain for several days. Its opening scene starts with a monologue by a paraplegic who seems kind, is fairly heavy and has a slight stutter that’s his voice sound like that of a young child (Miller 10). Floyd McClure is the name of this paraplegic. A while back, his dog was run over by a car and since then, he has had a desire to set up a graveyard. The film creates and follows his fantasy, indicating the pitiful, exposed land where he established his burial ground at the convergence of two expressways. At that point, with the sly show, the movie progressively uncovers that the graveyard failed and the remains parts of the already buried dogs must be exhumed. Other individuals are involved in helping McClure’s dream come to fruition. These include his partner, investors, and two women who had their dead dogs buried in his cemetery. The other character is an old woman who loved pets and wanted to

Surname 2 see them decently buried. It is after the introduction of these characters that the movie shifts to introduce Cal Harberts. He is a go-getter who takes all the exhumed dogs and buries them in his pet cemetery. In so doing, he continues McClure’s dream and makes it a reality. The movie then becomes tragic, illustrating a picture of a chillingly hopeless lifestyle and of the individuals living it with tenacious confidence in optimistic reasoning. The burial ground is dreary and fruitless and the movie creators advice the audience that, "God is love; canine is god in reverse." As a way of showing love and respect, an American flag has been placed above the little graves. The main message that McClure passes to the audience is that the sole reason for the existence of animals is to be loved and cherished. Thus, they need to be well taken care of and protected.

Surname 3 Work Cited Miller, Jonathan. "24 Lies Per Second: an Auteurist Analysis of the Documentary Films of Errol Morris." (2011)....