“Marla” is a realistic, sensitive, tragic, yet humanely told life story of a Brown Swiss dairy cow with appreciation and recognition of the relationship between farmer/rancher and the animals in their care. Though some liberties have been necessarily taken, the story is told from the cow’s perceptive much like Anna Sewell’s story of “Black Beauty” a horse--loved, then abused and later rescued and Richard Adams’ portrayal of the journey of a colony of rabbits in “Watership Down”. Those clas...