In the movie Dog Tooth, Ougs Lansmos shows us a miniature version of a totalitarian society, a strange family isolated from the world. The family consists of a pair of parents, eldest son, and two daughters. A family of five lives in a secret mansion all day long. The three children have been isolated by their fathers since they were young. They could not touch anyone except their parents and knew almost nothing about the world beyond the high wall. In the movie, the father is the only person who can drive outside. He has a normal job. Patriarchy is supreme in this family. He is the ruler and interpreter of this simulated society. He runs this family carefully, Deliberately tearing off the outer cover of the purchased goods, strictly controlling the thought trend of the children in the fence. Everything has been rewritten in the education that the father has set for his children. For example, the vocabulary education that the father recorded for the children at the beginning of the movie is a leather sofa. When you are tired, you can say that I want to sit on the ocean and rest. The highway is a strong wind. Father, as the rule maker, turns all the unseen words into all the words that cut off your imagination of the unknown. The father often warned the children of the dangers outside the fence, and even deceived that they had an older brother who ran out because of disobedience and lived a miserable life outside, so that the eldest daughter would quietly throw the cake outside the wall, the younger son Will mutter something to the big brother who doesn't exist outside the wall. The success of a totalitarian society lies in its airtightness. All unfamiliar things may cause internal chaos. Therefore, when a wild cat appears in the yard, the children can be frightened. The younger son cruelly killed the cat and his father took the opportunity. Teach the children a lesson about how dangerous outside the fence is. This cat-calling creature will tear people to pieces. Their non-existent brother died under the claws of the cat. In order to resist the cat’s invasion, the father taught the children how to bark. , The innocent child in the yard leaned over to learn how absurd this dog bark is, but all of this is normal and necessary for the rule-makers. Looking back at this totalitarian model in the movie, a master father, a monitor mother (everything in the house is controlled by the mother when the father is at work), and the three children who have been given the worldview from the father since childhood, one is absolutely isolated from the world. The paradise environment. For a few moments, looking at the huge lawn, the not too dazzling sunlight, and the pool with the right water temperature will feel that this enclosed environment is a balanced life state or even utopian. But the children will never be able to talk about sex and the world as the young people portrayed by Boccaccio, only they numbly watch the planes flying in the sky and all kinds of weird behaviors in the garden. It is always human nature and the awakening of thought from the outside world that disturbs totalitarianism, which matures in the youngest son. At that time, the father used money to make a deal with a female employee to provide sexual services for his son. Christian was hired to meet his son’s sexual needs, but quietly changed the airtightness of the family. New vocabulary she popped up from time to time allowed The children feel fresh but the mother is confused by the explanation. For example, the elder son asks what the zombie means and the mother's panic explanation is a kind of little yellow flower. Even Christina secretly taught her eldest daughter to exchange items in order to satisfy her selfish desires. The eldest daughter licked Christina’s lower body in exchange for a shiny headband, as well as three movie tapes that completely changed the family. It was these three movie tapes that revolutionized the eldest daughter's worldview and cast doubt on all kinds of inside the fence. The father found the eldest daughter's videotape and noticed the faltering of the family. After punishing the eldest daughter, he no longer believed in anyone, but had to stage a heinous incest in the fence in order to satisfy the eldest son's sexual desires. When the son and daughter went to bed, the eldest daughter repeated the lines in the videotape "Rocky" with her eyes blankly: "You bitch, next time I am like this, I will fucking abolish you." Although this is not aimed at the eldest son. A simple imitation, but it can be seen that the three video tapes have a great impact on the eldest daughter. Children are good at imitating, especially for new things. It is the impact of these new things that makes the eldest daughter have a night escape, as an escape But his father didn't feel panic. He could perfectly prepare the big sister to die in the world outside the fence just like the previous big brother.
There is a remark about training dogs in the movie. The owner of the dog shop confidently said that dogs are just a bunch of plastic mud. There are only five stages of training. You can be irritable and docile. The same applies to people, but what is difficult for people to train is the control of desires and thoughts. We have seen too many authoritarian societies that dictators try to build, improve your speech, create a sense of fear for you, and completely reform your thinking to make it unitary. "Dog Tooth" is a simulation of a totalitarian society and a black metaphor for human power. The director uses a minimalist picture composition to strongly contrast the darkest and crazy wasteland in human nature. "Dog Tooth" is worth thinking about. Totalitarianism exists in the family as well as in the country. We are willing to be actors for the absurd drama directed by those big hands under the control of power.
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