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
  • Branson 2022-03-24 09:01:49

    Purely mechanical movement with no emotion at all. The back of each dog seems to be engraved with a capital indifference, carrying on blank thinking and babbling beautiful nonsense.

  • Adela 2021-12-01 08:01:29

    It’s far worse than the fox father. I want to engage in a "political metaphor" with such a playful style, and I still use a foreign culture that I am not familiar with. The end result is Orientalism with its appearance but completely wrong core + self-inflicted humiliation. (From the film, most of the dogs are 㹴 dogs native to the United Kingdom, but you can’t see a Shiba Inu or Akita.

Isle of Dogs quotes

  • Nutmeg: Will you help him, the little pilot?

    Chief: Why should I?

    Nutmeg: Because he's a twelve year old boy, dogs love those.

  • Rex: I used to sleep on a lamb's wool beanbag next to an electric space heater. That's my territory, I'm an *indoor* dog.

    King: I starred in twenty-two consecutive Doggy Chow commercials. Look at me now, I couldn't land an audition.

    Boss: I was the lead mascot for an undefeated high school baseball team.

    [sneezes]

    Boss: I lost all my spirit, I'm depressing.

    Duke: I only ask for what I've always had, a balanced diet, regular grooming, and a general physical once a year.

    Rex: I think I might give up.

    Duke: What, right now?

    Rex: Right now.

    [turns around]

    Rex: There's no future on Trash Island.

    Duke: [sneezes, then turns to Boss and King] You heard the rumor, right? About Buster?

    [All the four dogs murmur]

    Boss: Who's Buster?

    Duke: Uh, my brother from another litter.

    King: What happened to him?

    Duke: Suicide. Hanged himself by his own leash.

    Boss: Aw, boy...

    Rex: I want my master.

    Chief: [scoffs in disgust] You make me sick.

    [vomits off to the side and walks up to the four dogs]

    Chief: I've seen cats with more balls than you dogs.

    [shouts at Duke]

    Chief: STOP LICKING YOUR WOUNDS!

    [Duke looks around awkwardly with his tongue out. Chief walks up to Boss]

    Chief: You hungry? Kill something and eat it.

    [walks up to Duke]

    Chief: You sick? Take a long nap.

    [walks up to King]

    Chief: You cold? Dig a hole in the ground, crawl into it, and bury yourself.

    [walks up to Rex]

    Chief: But nobody's giving up around here, and don't you forget it, ever. You're Rex. You're King. You're Duke! You're Boss! I'm Chief. We're a pack of scary indestructible alpha dogs. You're talking like a bunch of housebroken... pets.

    Rex: You don't understand. Uh, how could you, I mean you're a...

    Chief: Go ahead say it. I'm a stray, yeah.