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 Jerome Yoo's Mongrels is a meditative exploration of grief and uncertain new beginnings. The film is divided into three parts: God, Cowboy, and Blonde, and each segment focuses on one of the three main characters. A father, son, and daughter emigrated from Korea to start a new life in Canada. This was supposed to be the good life they were promised, but dealing with the unknown was challenging. At the heart of the film is each character's sense of grief and reaction to this constant agony. Sonny had a strange connection with animals, particularly dogs; it was almost as if he could communicate with them. Scott Larson hired him to kill the mixed-breed dogs that lived in the area. He considered the animals a threat to livestock, crops, and humans. Sonny was tasked with killing the wild dogs, and he experienced a sense of contradiction because, in a way, he identified with these creatures more than anything else in the foreign country. The only way Sonny could make a living in Can...