This is a review for “Dogtooth”,
released May 18, 2009 in France at the Cannes Film Festival and then released to public on November 11, 2009 in Greece. This is
a Greek movie, in the Greek language. I watched this on Tubi on April
21, 2019, in Greek with English subtitles.
Trailer
Cast
Plot
A father and mother raise their three
adult children in a very isolated and repressed lifestyle. The world
outside of their blockaded house is evil and dangerous, they tell
their children. How can they survive? Is there a way to be ready to
take on the outside world?
Official MPAA Rating (According to
IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute
waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of
something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but
could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly
amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all
around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
1/5 - A father and mother take a
"The Village" type stance on life: they teach their
children that the world is evil (cats are the most evil creatures out
there) and keep them locked away in a country-side house [which Dad
comes and goes from – hypocrisy].
They bring a woman over so that the son
can take care of his sexual needs. Being that he doesn't know how to
take care of a woman, she doesn't get satisfaction for intercourse.
She then goes to one of the daughters and gets her satisfaction,
which angers the parents. They stop bringing the woman over [I can't
remember if they kill her?] and then talk about promoting incestual
sex {keeping it “in house”}.
The parents also promote violence among
the children (fighting to get something or do something and getting
rewarded for it), repression, and abusing the children physically as
well as poisoning their minds with false definitions/viewpoints (no
religion involved). They tell the children that mother is expecting
another sibling and a dog, which is really messed up how they bring
that up. They tell their children that airplanes are very small
things in the sky that can fall down to the ground (as toy
airplanes). One thing they tell their children is that they cannot go
out into the real world until their dogtooth falls out, which it is
biologically NEVER supposed to do. Overall, the parents are terrible
people. This is much worse than “The Village” because there
doesn't seem to be a reason, though they think it is right somehow.
Stories of survival is one thing but “Dogtooth” is worse because
the family relies on father telling a lie, working a job in the
outside world, and keeping the family away from everyone. If it had
been just a survival story, like post-apocalyptic, that would be one
thing but they took it way out of line.
Suggested? No. Interesting psychology
but not that great of a movie. If you want to know about propaganda
and mind-washing, then sure. Aside that, this movie is worthless.
From someone that just got out of a repressive background, it was a
bit disgusting to watch this but glad that my situation was better
than the childrens' situation in the movie. I would not want to watch
this again; even just reviewing it makes my stomach turn. Definitely NOT for children.
So, that's my movie review. Thanks for
reading! There are more reviews in the future, as always.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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