When your favorite is taken off the shelf...

Enos 2021-12-01 08:01:29

If you stay on the Internet long enough, you often read books, listen to music and watch movies online. You will find that some books are often unavailable, such as Wu Zhihong's "Giant Infant Kingdom". Some singers’ songs can’t be heard, such as Chen Sheng, such as PGONE. Some actors, such as Huang Qiusheng and Du Wenze, cannot go to the mainland to make movies and TV dramas to make reality shows. Some movies and TV series resources are not available, such as "Taxi Driver".

There are many reasons. Some will tell you that there is no copyright, some will tell you that vulgarity violates mainstream values, and some will tell you who is independent of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and some websites directly self-castrate and concentrate on cleaning up for fear of getting into trouble. And this kind of "disaster" is often a catastrophe, such as the direct closure of the public account of the account, without giving you the opportunity to appeal.

"Canis Island" is such a movie, but the favorite thing has become a dog. Dogs are man’s best friends, and there are many stars and shit shovelers around us. In the evening in the community, besides strolling children near the activity center, all kinds of pet dogs and fancy pets are also used. If one day tells you that we are going to exile these dogs to desert islands and even intensively clear them out, how would those dog owners react? What if you tell you that these dogs have a plague? What if the plague is a hoax?

You will have the courage to stand up like the foreign exchange student and professor and say that this is wrong? Will you stick to your own aesthetics and even go to the desert island to find your partner? Do you dare to go to desert islands with industrial waste water, garbage all over the ground, and inconvenient transportation? Do you have to face the hunting of thugs, the biting of mechanical dogs, and the unfamiliar environment? How difficult is attachment. The most difficult thing is when you find it hard and find that the dog has a new life, how should you face it?

Like the voters in the audience, you will quietly listen to the man on the stage talking about his city development blueprint declaration, talking about his continued re-election, talking about your habit of numbness, applauding, and living yourself. It’s not okay to keep a dog, but it’s always okay to keep a cat. I'm content.

Otherwise, suicide inexplicably like a professor who wants to compete for the mayor to persist in studying the serum? Was dismissed back to the country by handing over student ID like an exchange student who requested a recount?

The public always follow blindly, lack the ability to think independently or are unwilling to think independently. When the news that Huang Qiusheng denounced Jackie Chan broke out, there was a lot of scolding on the Internet, and even Du Wenze's message was taken out to whipped and scolded, and you are not needed for what you count as an old mainland. Few people pay attention to the news itself, such as what Huang Qiusheng's original words are and what is the background. I only know that as soon as there is such news, I am afraid that my actions will slow down and fall behind.

Just like those people holding "No Dogs" in the movies, because news broadcasts always promote the dangers of dogs and the horrors of dog plague, brainwashing and bombing. Propaganda for a long time, you can't help but believe it, just like the curative effect of Hongmao medicinal liquor. The Nazis also propagated this way, and Jews were also deported, detained, and detained in concentration camps to be purged.

"Who are we, who we want to be". The best state is that you can become whoever you want to be, without others teaching you to be who you want to be. The mayor likes cats, so the whole people must raise cats and drive dogs. This is dictatorship. The more terrifying thing about dictatorship is the packaging of democracy, such as giving you the freedom to vote and giving you the opportunity to speak on stage, but this is just a form. Using contradictions to divert the attention of the public, create a plague, and then eliminate it, not only to win the support of the people, but also to satisfy selfishness.

"Island of Dogs" is a movie full of political metaphors. You can see traces of many historical stories in it, such as the Nazi eradication of Jews, the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the political ecology of Japan. These stories are still happening and have not gone far.

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Extended Reading
  • Norene 2022-03-22 09:01:46

    The Japanese Communist Taiko version of the propaganda film. Dog slaves bring their own tissues.

  • Icie 2021-12-01 08:01:29

    Still the familiar Wes Anderson. My favorite thing is that I didn’t simply let the dog speak human words, but at the beginning, I used subtitles to explain that "dog barks are all translated into English", and then I didn’t understand Japanese without subtitles. I experienced the dog’s perspective.

Isle of Dogs quotes

  • [Mayor Kobayashi speaking in Japanese as Simul-Translate Machine translates]

    Simul-Translate Machine: As you know, we all hate dogs. Chairman Fujimoto-san, President of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. You secretly introduced mega-quantities of infected fleas and contagious tick-larvae into a metropolitan city center, creating an unprecedented animal disease outbreak. Thank you.

    [applause]

    Simul-Translate Machine: General Yamatachi-san, Commander of the Megasaki Municipal Task Force. You oversaw the deportation of over 750,000 caged-animals to a nearly uninhabitable offshore refuse center. Good work.

    [applause]

    Simul-Translate Machine: Supervisor Kitano-san, Director of Kobayashi Robotics. You developed the most promising artificial life-form in the history of corporate technology and a powerful new weapon, to boot. Well done.

    [applause]

    Simul-Translate Machine: Yakuza Nakamura-san, Head of the Clenched-Fist Gang. You eliminated all Pro-Dog opposition through the use of bribery, extortion, intimidation, and violent force. My compliments.

    [applause]

    Simul-Translate Machine: Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered. Now we prepare for the final stage of our conspiracy theory: the permanent end to the Canine Saturation Crisis.

  • [Two packs of feral dogs growling at each other over a garbage bag potentially containing food]

    Rex: Wait a second. Before we attack each other and tear ourselves to shreds like a pack of maniacs, let's just open the sack first and see what's actually in it. It might not even be worth the trouble.

    Igor: Alright.

    Rex: A rancid apple core, two worm-eaten banana peels, a moldy rice cake, a dried-up pickle, tin of sardine bones, a pile of broken egg-shells, an old smushed-up rotten gizzard with maggots all over it...

    Chief: Okay, it's worth it.

    [All dogs proceed to fight]