Dogman was the first film I saw at the Cannes Film Festival. Before watching this film, I didn't know what the film was about, but after watching it, I felt the emotional anger and helplessness of the male protagonist.
The film is very realistic and doesn't have too many plots.
Marcello, the male protagonist, lives in a pet shop. He is thin, gentle, kind, and patient. In his spare time, he would sit in a coffee shop with his friends and brag and play football with his friends. Every year I take my daughter to go diving. He loved his daughter, loved his friends, and lived a monotonous but warm and peaceful life. However, his peaceful life was turned upside down by Simoncino, who had just been released from prison. Simoncino is strong and violent, unreasonable, everything is solved with fists, and the neighbors hate and fear him. Simoncino forced Marcello to buy drugs for him as soon as he was released from prison, and later took Marcello to steal things. The man took his daughter on a trip out of fear and in order to make more money, so he chose to compromise and In this way, Simoncino was dragged into the whirlpool of crime step by step, getting deeper and deeper. In one crime, Marcello went to prison for the crime of Simoncino. He thought that when he was released from prison, everything would be restored. He thought he could get the money to take his beloved daughter to travel. He thought his street Neighbors are waiting for him, but who knows, when he is released from prison, the world has abandoned him. He was like a rat crossing the street, everyone yelled at him, and his daughter couldn't get along with him too much because of his condition. Simoncino didn't give him the money he promised him, but beat him up instead. It's really sad to see the film here, what's wrong with Marcello? Maybe it's his cowardice, maybe it's his self-righteous loyalty. Compared with Marcello's downfall, Simoncino is obviously much more dashing. He is still unrestrained, talking with his fists, driving a motorcycle that pulls the wind, and ruthlessly crushing Marcello's heart. In the end Marcello couldn't take it anymore, he was carried away by his anger, and he accidentally killed Simoncino. After killing Simoncino, he wanted to destroy the body, but out of a deep desire to return to the original peaceful life, he shouted loudly that he killed Simoncino and moved his body to the square, as if like this He can go back in time, back to his old life...
The relationship between the male protagonist Marcello and Simoncino is intriguing. On the one hand, because of his admiration for the powerful, Simoncino brought him to experience the passion and novelty that he did not have in his original life, which made him indulge in it. Deep down fear. A kind-hearted person was closed by the powerful step by step on the road of bloody revenge. At the end of the film, Marcello sat on the stone steps, his eyes were empty and confused, and he was calm after anger. The world left him only loneliness. .
Ironically, when his friends hated him, scolded him, and were far away from him, his dog was still by his side unswervingly, which was the only consolation in Marcello's heart. . The dog's perseverance is more like a satire of human nature, and they also accompany Marcello to experience everything around them under their witness.
This film is extremely realistic, calmly portrays human nature, and presents a world that is apocalyptic and depressed. It makes one wonder, what led Marcello to the path of revenge? Murder with intent or crime of passion? Is it the distortion of human nature or the decline of morality? In my opinion, in a word, you forced me.
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