We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.
Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.