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Title: Dogtooth (2009)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Christos Stergioglou | ... | Father | |
| Michele Valley | ... | Mother | |
| Angeliki Papoulia | ... | Older Daughter (as Aggeliki Papoulia) | |
| Hristos Passalis | ... | Son | |
| Mary Tsoni | ... | Younger Daughter | |
| Anna Kalaitzidou | ... | Christina | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Steve Krikris | ... | Colleague | |
| Sissi Petropoulou | ... | Secretary (as Athanasia Petropoulou) | |
| Alexander Voulgaris | ... | Dog trainer | |
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 über-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina disturbs the domestic balance. Written by Anonymous
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I wanted to see that movie after I saw the huge amount of positive feedback it got, and also because it got several awards. Movies reviewed like these tend to be very good, and I think of myself as a person who is rarely entertained by "popular" Hollywood movies. I need depth and meaning in films.
But I honestly have to say, this movie doesn't deliver anything you would expect from a movie. The meaning of it (I guess) is that it is a parody of how we humans shape by being raised in a common way, so that we all follow the same pattern of life. It also wants to portray terms like authority and ignorance in a rather surreal and abnormal way.
In my opinion, the director achieves that very badly. The scenes in this movie are absurd and badly shot. The actors have no talent, the dialogue is unnecessarily random, the soundtrack is missing and the plot is completely absent. Furthermore, there is no real explanation at all, not in the beginning of the movie or the end. It just starts, goes and cuts and then you see the credits. No climax at all! As a viewer you feel absolutely dazzled when the credits roll as you will easily find this whole movie being a single joke.
Then I tried to view the movie from a more artistic perspective. Maybe it is supposed to represent itself as a piece of art and therefore not to be easily explained. But no. I for myself think that art is something magnificent that not everybody can produce or achieve, like painting the Mona Lisa or composing a symphony. But seeing a two girls jump up and down pretending to dance, hitting themselves in the jaw until they bleed or seeing a grown up guy having sex with his own sister is not art. This movie is just wrong and poorly done. It's weird and perverted rubbish with no higher meaning nor entertainment value at all.
I can not recommend it to anyone but people who like surreal movies. Therefore it gets just 1 out of 10 from me.