1 The family constructed by the film is full of "totalitarian" shadows organized . Everything the dog did was carefully planned with a clear mind. Media monopoly . In terms of education, there are deceptive vocabulary learning tapes, "zombie" = "little yellow flower", "telephone" = "flavoring agent", "keyboard" = private parts; in terms of literature and art, records with strong ideological control, meaning that does not match the lyrics; In terms of entertainment, Daddy Dog does not allow his daughter to watch movies; in terms of daily information acquisition, Daddy Dog removes all product labels. economic monopoly . Children need to strictly follow the dog father's rules in order to get some "rewards". Thought control . The dog father kept inputting to his children, "The outside world is very dangerous, so don't go out easily. You can only go out after the dog's teeth have fallen out. You must drive when you go out, and you can learn to drive when the dog's teeth grow back." Fake bloody experiences" to continuously consolidate mind control. Violence. The trump card of totalitarianism is violent control. Violent punishment was imposed on those who violated the established rules. Daughter said, hope the plane in the sky falls so she can get it. So I slapped my mother in the face. Because the daughter's words clearly violated the rules of the family. According to the mother, only those who are eligible will get the plane. And how to qualify? There is clearly a constant effort to meet the family rules set by the father.
2 Three kinds of life tragedies Son: live, then live to meet sexual needs. She had sex with the female guard worker with a deadpan expression. After the female worker was beaten by the dog father, she had sex with the eldest sister with a deadpan expression on her face. After the eldest daughter fled, she kissed her sister. The eldest daughter: resisted, and then failed to get out of the shackles of totalitarianism. The female worker brought an awakening to the eldest daughter, and was so awakened that she knocked out her own teeth with a dumbbell and escaped. But she can escape without knocking her teeth, she doesn't need to hide in the trunk to escape, and she can't lock herself in the trunk... The totalitarian oppression is so powerful that the eldest daughter realizes that something is wrong, but she is still afraid Stepping out of the house alone, I am convinced that "you must drive when you go out". Younger daughter: Obey, then unconsciously become a sex slave. If you want to get something good, you need to "lick" in exchange. From the shoulders to the stomach, from the stomach to the thighs, this is a kind of unconscious training and cultivation, and finally the little daughter establishes a feedback: "licking", you can get the reward. The eldest daughter successfully trained her sister into a sex slave role. So in the end, when the youngest daughter wanted Dad's spear gun, she didn't choose to ask for it, but chose to "lick" it.
It is worth mentioning that on the night when the eldest daughter fled, the dog father ran out of the house in a hurry to look for it, but the dog mother, son, and young daughter still did not dare to step out of the house, lying at the door barking like a dog.
3 But everyone is not that healthy. From the audience's point of view, the film family members, especially the three children, are very unhealthy. They are curious but lack common sense, resist but lack thinking, desire and lack dignity. So apart from the totalitarian shadow of film construction, we as audiences don't seem to be that healthy. conceptually . For example, gender stereotypes say that women should get married and have children when they are old, and even women should have children; men should earn money to support their families, and the so-called full-time husband is to be regarded as a soft-eater. And the so-called "feminist rights" born from this, some dogs in the society under the guise of "feminism" are not clamoring for women's rights but privileges; these people unlimitedly demand the so-called "rights", in fact, they hope that the existing male rights The social structure was replaced by a feminist social structure, turning women into the so-called dominant sex. Of course, there are regional discrimination, racial discrimination and so on. behavior . In collective behavior, such as a social indifference. People care more about how to be a refined egoist than about building a better social environment. Few people care about the handling of public events and the formulation of public policies, and fewer people care about whether those injustices have been properly resolved. In individual behavior, such as cold violence and control in intimate relationships. Although it cannot be said that cold violence, like control and totalitarianism, both contain violence and control. But as a common but unhealthy pattern of behavior in intimate relationships, it seems worthy of attention.
The family in the film is sick, but so do we.
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