tandem of a dog

Suzanne 2022-04-21 09:01:50

From the beginning of picking up bones to the end of the only life in the town, dogs are undoubtedly more dignified than other people.
Depressed and depressing films end with revengeful endings, which makes me even more sad and disappointed. Indeed, this closed and self-sufficient town does have unavoidable ignorance. They haven't seen the world, they are timid, they are selfish, they are greedy, and their desires can rise to insatiable. But please understand that this all stems from the desire to know without experience. It cannot be denied that this is the weakness of human nature. Similarly, the heroine's yearning for freedom finally returned to reality, and she still did not escape human nature or reality. This is the conflict between dream and reality. Why reality must be the end result.
If at the end, she escaped, she was the only one who escaped by herself. Maybe her clothes were ragged at that time, maybe she had been ravaged by many men at that time, maybe all the people who hurt her never had retribution, maybe, although there were too many possibilities, her heart was so pure. This is better or worse than the pleasure of sitting in a famous car and seeing those people die one by one.
In conclusion, this is a cannibalistic movie. Although in a small area, it seems that justice has triumphed over evil, but the truth is that the escape of dreams is ultimately attributed to the killing of reality. Well, if I had to choose, I'd rather be a dog.

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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.