I liked the film because children and a dog, who are not mostly recognized as subjects by many film makers, are the main characters and the film shows their daily concerns in an unvarnished way. The child, who brings a loaf of bread to his house, confronts with the hardship of passing a dog-guarded territory. It is an everyday worry of a child so that this happened to me many times when I was a child. The child tries to develop tactics. At first, he looks around to find someone to pass the dog-guarded territory with. However his strategy fails when the man enters a house right before the dog. The child stops for a few seconds but he finds another solution and tries to get on well with the dog by giving a piece of bread. (At that point I thought that he will finish all of the bread step by step. However it did not happen as I guessed.) After the initial child passed the dog-guarded territory, other child faces with the same problematic and at that time something different occurs.
Review of The Bread and Alley
