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: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • 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.