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Fehér isten (2014)
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Like what every other reviewer is saying about this film, there were a lot of missteps. I'm going to preface... that I have never seen a Hungarian film before, I appreciate my heroic films of the U.S.A., and I care for my own dog and never want anything to happen to her. With that, I thought the story was lacking a message and if the message was about dogs, I don't get it because if you care about dogs like I do then this movie only creates problems, not corrects them. The Hungarian film industry may have a different idea of perseverance and love through hardship than I do. Going into the movie I expected a bond between girl and pet. I expected to see immense sorrow when the two are separated. I expected a girl to go to her wits end to find the dog. I expected the city faced with a canine revolt to examine the error of their ways and I expected a resolution at the end of the film and not just a concrete nap between dog, girl, and father. I got none of that. There wasn't much of a bond. The trumpet playing may be the one ingredient to a 'bond theory'. When the two are separated, there is not a lot of remorse in Lili's voice. I would be a blubbering mess if I was in her condition. The girl puts up fliers to find him but gives up halfway through to attend 2 parties. If the dog was that important to you, would you shrug shoulders and dodge into the nearest club? And when she does decide to do something about it, the entire city is shut down and the swat team has convinced itself that to handle the situation they must kill without self-evaluation. After these events, do Hungarians care for all pets? Is animal brutality done away with? What about that tax, does that go away? This is what the conclusion should've covered but it didn't. I'll also throw in that, though the animal brutality was instrumental to the dog's journey I didn't like it one bit. Like I said, I love the wholesome story telling of Hollywood pictures so this was a shocker. I wanted to see a physical and emotional journey for Hagan, I really did, but I didn't ask for that much. When Hagan is being trained for dog fights, I had to look away. Most can argue that it was necessary to see gore and death in Hagan's odyssey but, by watching it, did I rectify the situation or did I just watch a bloody dog fight? Some questions left unanswered 1. Why does this dystopian city hate half breeds so much? 2. If the mother knew her ex-husband would have a hard time housing the dog why didn't she make more preparations? 3. Was there meant to be romantic tension between Lili and Peter? 4. How did the healing process between Lili and her father come so quickly? 5. Hagan sees the error of his ways for killing his canine opponent so he goes on a human killing rampage? Right... 6.Could Lili not change in a bathroom or do all pubescent girls change in front of their fathers? 7. Was there meant to be a connection between the slaughterhouse and the dog revolt? 8. Just pay a TAX!! will it kill the father to pay a tax for 3 months? Obviously, I didn't care for the movie at all and I wished I didn't see it through to the end. It was a waste of storytelling and a waste of time.