The film tells the story of a crazy and deformed family that is cut off from the outside world. They live a reclusive life. The three children in the family are forced by their father to have no choice. The only person who can enter the family is Christina, an employee of the father's company. , she came here to satisfy her son's desire...
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has been engaged in film and television production since 1995. "Dogtooth" is his second feature film after "Guinita".
From childhood to adulthood, the three siblings lived in a beautiful villa within the walls and never took a step. They live in a constructed perfect world, like aliens, revolving only around the logic of their parents. The father invited a female employee in the company to have sex with his son, but he didn't expect her to teach sexual knowledge in private, disturbing the balanced family relationship... The whole film is full of weirdness, absurdity and human distortion, which makes people gradually change from sneer to Fear, the Cannes Film Festival premiere sparked a lot of controversy.
Ogus Lanthimos, the director from the ancient European country of Greece, is the kind of filmmaker who never stops talking. From his debut "Guinita" to the lucrative "Dogtooth" to the controversial "Attenborough," Yorgos Lanthimos' films focus on a grotesque, Absurd family, showing the non-mainstream life of a group of minorities who are out of tune with society. The characters in his films are either freaks or freaks.
Is it the ridiculous or terrifying life of Yorgos Lanthimos himself that makes this film, or is it just out of his head? Ogus Lanthimos said: "My own life is not like this, the idea of making this film came from a simple idea - is there a family where parents want to keep their children forever So, they will provide the best hardware conditions for the children, and then isolate them from the world. Of course, I didn't think such parents would exist at the time. However, when we started rehearsing, I have heard a version of a story very similar to mine. It was an Austrian named Josef Fritzl who kept his daughter locked in his basement for over twenty years. (Currently, this The incident has been made into a documentary, "The Story of the Beast in the Cellar") This real story is too dark, compared to "Dog Tooth" is much brighter and more upward. Moreover, I just want to express in the film A tense relationship between the child and the parent, rather than trying to express extreme emotions like parental malevolence."
Although Lanthimos said he has not experienced such a family, but in the country of Greece, authoritarian fathers like the one in the film still abound. Another idea of his making this film is to "revolt" against "dictatorial parents". Lanthimos said: "Yes, in Greece it is not only the father who is authoritarian, but the whole family who likes to control the behavior of a person, an adult child. For example, when it comes to girlfriends, For example, some sexual activities. The family likes to take care of these things. Moreover, the children in the film are grown up and are still being cared for at home. The plot also comes from the reality of Greece. In Greece, many children live with their parents in their 30s Together. On the one hand, it's family affection; on the other hand, it's a cultural malaise."
After watching the film, many film critics and fans are very impressed with the performances of the actors in the film, some nude scenes, some unspeakable lines, and some self-mutilating and self-abusing tendencies are all in the seemingly understatement of this group of actors. displayed smoothly. In fact, most of these actors who have not shown their faces on the big screen are mostly drama actors, and they all have their own troupes and stage careers. To act in a movie is just a temporary cameo. Mary Tsoni, who plays her sister in the film, is even a singer. Lanthimos said: "These actors have good fundamentals, I have worked with Anna Kalaitzidou and Christos Passalis, they They all have their own troupes. They write, direct, and perform plays by themselves. Therefore, they have a good understanding and execution of plays. It is a simple and pleasant thing to talk to such people. In fact, Mary T. Sony is the weakest performer of all because she is not a professional actress and has little experience."
There is an unforgettable, raw, unadorned power in these actors' performances in the film. Lanthimos said: "A lot of the performances in the film are very strange and unusual. We do a lot of rehearsals for these performances. The reason for doing so much rehearsal is that I want them to forget that they are performing, forgetting The characters and the story itself. What I need is an emotion and cognition similar to that of a child. Because the three children in the film have never left home, they are inexperienced, inexperienced people. I make them feel like children Living and acting, forget about the content and themes of the film. I teach them to speak with a strange tone and speed, to see the world with a pure eye. It's all about making the characters in the film look believable, but also for the sake of Let their performances be sincere."
In the film, the fuse that prompted the eldest daughter to smash her teeth and leave the house was two video tapes. Although the director did not clearly indicate what the two video tapes were, from the later storyline, these two video tapes should be. Rocky and Jaws. Lanthimos said: "The videotape was a turning point for the film, and the older daughter mentioned Rocky's lines and Jaws later on because the story and images in the videotape opened up a whole new world for her. The world. The near void before her was life, and the videotape was the only fresh thrill. So the story of the movie was definitely firmly ingrained in her mind. And the actor's performance was also excellent, she really used a kind of A simple performance that is very close to life shows this transition. I don't know how much this transition would have been less without her performance."
After having sex with her son, the eldest daughter said something: "If you do this again, I will kill you, you bitch. I swear with my life and my daughter's life, you guys will soon be Will run away." This sentence comes from Stallone's film "Rocky".
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