Did you not feel happy when you saw the ending?

Emmitt 2022-04-19 09:01:44

Probably because I was spoiled.
In my eyes, Grace was an uncompromising Virgin from the beginning to the end of Dogtown. To escape the arrogant, which she once thought was the worst thing in the world, she ran away from her father. She believes that people, like dogs, follow their nature even if they do wrong, so they should be forgiven. The people in Dog Town tortured and insulted her, but she had always shown a sacrificial tolerance for all of this.
In the end, she seemed to suddenly "wake up", the moonlight illuminated the decision in her heart, she realized that the people in Dogtown were not much different from those in her father's gang, and her generosity had no real effect. So she chose violence under power. She killed all the people in Dog Town and gave back the many times they had treated her. The biggest difference between her and the people of Dogtown is that she has tears on her face while watching the fire outside the car window and the scene where the people of Dogtown were shot.
Seeing this, I really have no way to feel happy, those people should end up like this?
Grace may have learned something to see dogs differently from people.
In the future, she may become a murderous gang boss, but she is still the same Virgin as a dog.
It's nature. She can be the Virgin, but not the Virgin.

ps. I think Grace counts the bells there, the 15th drag is too long, it looks very artificial.

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Dogville quotes

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.

  • Narrator: [as Grace attempts to make her case] If forgiveness was close at hand in the mission house, they were all hiding it well. It hadn't been easy for Tom to get them there. Appealing to consciences stowed farther and farther away by their owners every day, as if they were as fragile as Henson's glasses after polishing, proved quite a task. But if one was going, the others might as well come along too, so nobody could talk behind anybody's back.