What the hell is the Isle of Dogs talking about?

Krystal 2022-03-25 09:01:08

Chapter-style multi-line narrative, the main line of the 12-year-old mayor's adoptive son looking for the dog's spots exiled by the mayor, the mayor and the shadow legion promote the dictatorship to participate in the election under the guise of expelling the canine, and the minority scientific researchers and the children's "legion" confrontation The mayor's conspiracy serves as a supplementary line, constructing the children's world and the adult world of binary opposition of children + dogs.

Absolute courage, loyalty and camaraderie on one side and perpetual cowardice, lies and enemies on the other, a common trope in Wes Anderson films. Also common are his obsessive-compulsiveness in symmetrical composition, bright color schemes and humor.

But this time, very different, the satire about militarism, the destruction of the environment, and the harming of animal children seems politically correct. But with white children as bystanders and political leaders calling for freedom to awaken politically castrated intellectuals, Japanese nationals and even political leaders, under her impetus, the protagonist, the Japanese child, succeeded in debunking the dictatorial conspiracy and was elected as the new mayor. It's all going very well, sci-fi, mainstream Western Europe, is it just spurning the adult world of clutter and hypocrisy? What is it trying to say?

It is worth mentioning that the main line setting is actually the dog's perspective, and the others are unknown third-party perspectives. What the audience mainly experiences is the dog's narrative perspective. The dog can't understand Japanese. When the protagonist boy speaks Japanese, he usually can't translate or add subtitles. It seems that the whole human society is the observation of the dog, that is, the audience's perspective. cao object. . .

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Isle of Dogs quotes

  • Chief: That kid is gonna get us all put to sleep. Euthanized. We won't find the dog, but we will die trying.

    Rex: Not a bad way to go.

  • Chief: Rex! King! Duke! Boss! You made it!

    Rex: What happened to you?

    Chief: I took a bath.

    Rex: What, he's got soap?

    Chief: Just a little.

    Rex: You're too fluffy.

    Chief: We played fetch.

    Rex: With a stick?

    Chief: With a hunk of rubber radiator tubing.

    Rex: And you brought it back to him?

    Chief: Yeah. He's a good boy.

    Rex: Don't you tell me that! I was the one that tried to make you be loyal to him in the first place!

    Chief: Stop, *stop*! This is the rendevous! Where's that trash-tram taking you?

    Rex: You think we booked this flight through a travel agent? We were fighting for our lives in a high-velocity trash-processor while you were getting scrubbed and brushed!

    Chief: Jump!

    Rex: Where?

    Chief: Here!

    Rex: When?

    Chief: Now!

    Rex: Why?

    Chief: *What*?