Dogtooth
Dogtooth
NR | 25 June 2010 (USA)
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Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

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perica-43151

This movie is somewhat uncomfortable watch, seems weird, but that is perhaps necessary to gain perspective into how reality can be distorted. In the age of fake news and criminal media, advanced propaganda and lots people living in bubbles, it is perhaps refreshing to understand how weird YOU might look to an outsider. This movie can help with that, among other things. As all great art, it will make you think. Highly original and not easy to forget.

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OneEightNine Media

The most twisted and revolting film I have ever seen. This film is sick but an interesting study in human nature and also unfortunately entertaining. ScreenJunkies put this on my radar. I honestly do not know what to say, humans can be this sick and twisted. Just look at what is going on in Burma right now - so yeah, morally evil stuff happens a lot but now the next level horror has found its way into mainstream entertainment over the past ten years or so. Does that mean as a society, we are changing to normalize the horrors of the world as it continues to drop into the lowest common denominator where was I? Whatever. We're finished here.

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Rhythm and Blues

I came to know about this movie in some website and saw these brilliant reviews people wrote in IMDB. So I started watching this movie with a lot of expectation. After it ended I was like wtf did I just watch. Well if you want to make a movie about unrealistic concept why not make a movie about parents who teach their children to eat shit and drink piss from their childhood? I mean if you want to make a 2 hr movie about all possible psychotic concepts u can come up with thousands of it. Though I can still see some reviewers going to term those concepts as disturbing and thus .. brilliant as well. First of all no justification was given why the parents kept those children confined inside the compound. So I guess they were nutjobs. And the children who were violent enough to brutally kill cats, strong enough to pull out their own tooth, rebel enough to have sex with each other, cant overpower and overrule two old people to gain freedom? Salt is telephone and sea is sofa .. really? So the dad had to memorize and call them in two different names in office and home everyday? lol just think about it. Also the parents who didnt give them books, didnt give them education, didnt give them any means of entertainment or bought any toys or games, are kind enough to provide a girl for the boy's sexual pleasure? Oh my god I feel my heads gonna explode stating the loopholes. But u know what its a very nice movie to spoof. That would be hilarious. I sincerely hope the writer and director take a long break and re-evaluate themselves and the primary purpose of movie making before taking the next step. And the positive reviewers should also give one visit to the nearest phychiatrist. (pardon my english)

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eagandersongil

A cold film that is both hot, tense, shocking and disturbing, dazzling human nature in a sarcastic and absurd way, Yorgos Lanthimos' "Canine Tooth" is a driving lesson where technical and creative resources talk so much. To the point of making the viewer believe in the complete absurdity of the plot of the great Greek director's work. The script of the film seems simple, basic, and maybe even silly, telling the story of a father and a mother who raise their 3 children (already in their 25s), just inside the house, making them believe that the world outside Is dangerous and taught them the distorted concepts of the world, the script tells us this story, but what is in between the lines is much bigger, it is worth to emphasize that even with the one and a half hour of film, the family is very well developed to the Everything, and is not missing just a little individual development of each character. Yorgos shows us a bit about the deconstruction of human nature, even with the 3 young people learning distorted and disconnected concepts and values, nature is there, the ambition to explore, the natural development of sexuality, the search for subterfuges to achieve freedom Even at the expense of blood), even the sense of economy is present, for even without the 3 young people knowing what it is, a barter trade is born between them, and even aggressiveness and civil obedience are shown as inherently high To the human being, we can change its world, change the name of everything, create mythologies and limits, but gradually the human being is awakened from and born independently of society. The thing that most skips the eye on the technical part is the camera, the camera angles can be used to magnify a character, to vilify a character, to humanize a character, and so on. Here the angles do not start at all, they are cold, they do not seek character from anybody, they simply transmit the story to us in a completely impartial way, it seems sometimes as if we were seeing a house camera, like a big brother, with angles Badly positioned, and characters out of the corner, this is purposeful because the characters have no name, we have no sense of where the story goes, nor what made the family to do it or their childhood, nothing more fair than The filming is also cold and indifferent, because we, the viewers, have to complete these gaps, photography does not say much, even though it is always very clear, we do not use warm colors, we have a palette pulled to a blue, Besides, there is the good soundtrack, and the good assembly. The performances of this film are frighteningly cool and realistic, even with that half- robotic tone (which is a feature of the Yorgos films), the performances do not sound cheesy or over-exaggerated, they are exactly as they should be. Yorgos Lanthimos is an interesting guy, reminds me a lot of the dinamaquês Lars Von Trier, his style and his approach, Yorgos is a guy with very few films in his career, but already it is good to keep an eye on him. "Canine Tooth" is a film that has been involved in many controversies, but is cinematographically complete, even short, he says a lot, disguised as a psychological suspense.

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