Dogtooth Comments

  • Bernhard 2022-04-26 06:01:02

    Lanthimos constructs a field that is far from reality and self-justifying, like the film's opening: it has its own grammar, and it is horribly clean and white. From a psychological or sociological point of view, it shows the 'control' demands of the middle class (and by extension everyone) and the politics of the family as a 'desire machine'. And the use of discourse-power in linguistics as a metaphor to support this Ibsen or Platonic allegory is also...

Extended Reading
  • Friedrich 2022-09-04 17:45:14

    desire to grow canine teeth

    Under the instruction and command of the father, the mother and children knelt in a row like dogs and learned to bark. They were serious and submissive, as if everything should be so.

    Seeing someone say that this film is tedious, tedious, and contrived, and that it is a typical failure of CULT, a...

  • Katarina 2022-09-20 19:23:29

    limit of control

    After five minutes from the beginning to the end, I felt like there was a stone pressing down on my heart, which was depressing and suffocating. The

    film only mentioned a little bit of the past of the parents. The mother was a baseball champion before, and she was left in the image of others. A...

Dogtooth quotes

  • Father: [subtitled version] Soon your mother will give birth to two children and a dog.

  • Older Daughter: Mom, what is a "cunt"?

    Mother: Where did you learn that word?

    Older Daughter: On a case on top of the VCR.

    Mother: A "cunt" is a large lamp. Example: The "cunt" switched off and the room got all dark.