Dogtooth

Adah 2022-10-21 20:59:12


On April 19, 2008, the 19-year-old eldest daughter of Austrian woman Elizabeth Kristin was seriously ill and was taken to the hospital. An incest case that shocked the world was revealed.
In 2009, a Greek freak director Ougs Lansmos took this social event as his creative inspiration and filmed "Dogtooth".

Bold, grotesque, cold, absurd, and cold, this movie is really not for Chinese theater audiences.

Why?

One is that under the hard work of the SARFT, the audience in the greenhouse may not have the ability to bear it; the

second is that it is difficult to imagine how the SARFT will “scissor hands” so that it will not destroy a movie that is completely dark. Completeness. Cut out the nudity? Cut the incest scene? Cut off the bloody scene? What to look at, just look at a group of crazy people who are isolated from the world in a big villa, have no worries about food and clothing, and love each other?

The theme of the movie is about "totalitarian" as viewed by the audience. After reading it, somehow, I thought of the country where Fatty Kim is. A serious and aggressive topic was disturbed by Fat Jin’s face too simple too naïve.

But the director said something about his original intention: "In the beginning, I was concerned about family life in general and the education of parents to their children, and whether our views on these have changed. But one day, I and a few people Chatting with friends, I joked that they are about to get married and have children, because divorce is common nowadays, and children are raised by single parents. So I say that marriage is meaningless. Even though I’m just joking, they behaved very excited (extremely defensive). ). This made me realize that when you say that someone’s family is not good, these generally polite people will also become crazy. At this time, I have the ability to shoot a man and protect him in all possible ways. The idea of ​​family, he keeps them away from outside interference, so as to ensure that the family is always together, and he is convinced that this is the best way."

In contrast, I support "totalitarianism" and "educational possibility". former. The reason is simple. If the director uses family and education as the theme of the movie, then the hesitant use of all film language makes people feel weird and disturbed, and it would seem pretentious and grandiose.

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Extended Reading

Dogtooth quotes

  • Father: Do you want to hear your grandfather sing?

    ["translating" Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon to his children]

    Father: Dad loves us. Mom loves us. Do we love them? Yes, we do. I love my brothers and sisters because they love me as well. The spring is flooding my house, the spring is flooding my little heart. My parents are proud of me because I'm doing just fine. I'm doing just fine but I will always try harder. My house, you are beautiful and I love you and I will never ever leave you.

  • Son: Mom! I've found two little zombies.