This is the story about James and Bob. A recovering drug addict, and his saviour, a ginger cat. Believable, relatable, brings back a lot of memories of me and my history with cats. I can truly relate, because at one point, and I started adopting stray cats when I was very little, I didn´t know whether I was saving them, or they were saving me.
I found out what care and being cared for meant, felt, when I started taking them ... let´s say "home".
I would fed a stray cat, spend my days with him/her, try to be a protector, a carer, a mother, a loving caring mother that would do everything for the little one.
If you don´t have a person, somebody to hold your hand as your´re growing up lonely, my cat would gave back everything ... all the love and time and attention .. everything would go back to me .. I learnt to look into cat´s eyes, i would caress and kiss my little one, and she/he would give 100% back. And then I didn´t feel so lonely, so unwanted, so unloved, so neglected, as before.
So that´s the issue, you don´t save them, they save you from your loneliness and sadness, one day at a time, since you are a little child, because nobody else would.
I had a mother and a father, but none of them would pay any attention to me, none would say anything to me, anything nice at least, so I would spend most of my time with my cat.
I started keeping straw cats since I was perhaps seven or eight years old, and I never stopped.
How else would I feel loved and appreciated but for them?
And now ... My latest cat, Lola, died at the age of 19. I loved her like crazy, she loved me back.
I ended up without a home, a house, I don´t own a place to live, I don´t have an income, because my illness doesn´t qualify, and any time soon I´ll be gone. Nobody can survive, nobody with an illness that keeps you in pain and involves chronic fatigue can survive the streets. I know that. So I´ve made up my mind. About how my life will end. I live with my mother, she´s ill, dermatomyositis, and as soon as she leaves, all my means of living will be gone with her.
So .. I guess I won´t be able to have a happy ending like the one in the film.
It´s been great to have become an avid reader, a cinephile, an animal lover ... that´s what I´m greatfull in life ...
So I guess I´m starting to say goodbye to everything.
I don´t know how long me and mother do have left, but I´m greatful for this film too.
Cheers eveyone and have a great life.