"Dog Town" uses an independent and free but weak and delicate girl to launch an experiment about the good and evil of human nature. The film brings humanity into a state of selfishness, ugliness, and hypocrisy, and then shows the distinction between urban and rural areas, modernity and tradition, and reflects on the overall development of human civilization. The film borrows the stage play in form, the space environment is in vain, and the props are extremely simplified, but it creates an extraordinary and profound stylized work.
"Dog Town" is a movie that tests people's psychological endurance. This is not to say that there are so many extraordinarily violent and bloody scenes in the movie, and how many ghosts and spirits are there. The film tension of "Dog Town" relies on the subversion and deconstruction of traditional morals and ethics in a specific environment. By constantly making the characters’ unanticipated spiritual privacy known to the public, it surprises and confuses the audience. At the same time, he constantly Breaking the audience’s expectations based on their own mainstream cultural context, and ruthlessly shattering the audience’s self-righteous construction dreams one by one. In the end, the angry audience found that they were actually watching their performance in front of a mirror. His men and women are themselves-ugly savages with good looks and civilized cloak.
The story of "Dog Town" is not complicated, and even the first few scenes feel a bit boring. The first thing that caught the audience's attention was the strange appearance of the film. This is a scene in a studio, without the walls of the house; there are no doors in the "house". When opening and closing the door, it relies on the characters' gestures and dubbing; the furniture in the house is very simple, except for the beds, tables and chairs necessary for daily life. Others; walls and roads are delineated by white lines on the concrete floor, and the names are written directly on the ground in large letters; gooseberry forests and bushes are also sketches drawn on the ground, and the conversion between day and night depends entirely on lighting; in the film He also used the overhead lens to show the entire Dogtown as a drawing. The director constructed a small symbolic world in the studio and made no secret of its nonsense. However, the director's behavior and psychology towards the people in the play has returned to concrete, even full of chattering details, although the whole story still appears Absurd, but it reflects the most real situation.
In any case, this is not a pleasing movie. It’s not because it’s badly filmed. In fact, the film’s narrative structure is rigorous, well-conceived, cold-tempered, and the setting is refreshing. At the same time, it has profound thoughts. Nicole Kidman’s performance is also very precise. Said that it cannot make people and pleasure, because it is rude and spares no effort to break the moral and psychological defenses of the audience.
