Dogtooth (2009)

Wonderful Movie

Just what I expected

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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.

WTF Just WTF MAN One of the biggest let downs movie wise I have seen in years. I really really regret taking the time to watch this piece of garbage

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)

O...that was...sure something... So, Yorgos Lanthimos has officially become one of my favorite filmmakers working today and perhaps of all time. He relishes in the kind of absurdity, unpretentious artiness, dry black humor, and disturbing horror/tragedy I love so very dearly, and these elements can all be clearly found in 'Dogtooth', his third and first truly notable film. Here, many important motifs of what has developed into the Lanthimos style can be found and are really mastered. While I personally find 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' to be the better film, I can definitely see some arguments for 'Dogtooth' being the man's masterpiece thus far. It is an original and gross and totally compelling work that kind of feels like what would have happened if the first half hour of 'Bad Boy Bubby' was stretched out to fill up the length of the entire film and just replaced the rest of it all together (if you've seen 'Bubby' you might know what I mean; if not, it's less likely but you still might know what I mean (I hope (I guess))), and, since 'Bad Boy Bubby' is far and away one of my favorite films, any possible comparison to it that is not directly meant to showcase how the non-'Bubby' film is absolute trash in one way or another is a very high compliment. However, I feel like a film like this one should come with some kind of warning. Even for the guy who made stuff like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer', some of the scenes in here are genuinely shocking. The sexual explicitness far exceeds that of your standard film (American film in particular), and many of the sex scenes do not feel simulated. Now, if you're like me, this is, if anything, a mild-to-moderate plus on the film's part, but if you're a Catholic nun or something I do not recommend it. Anyone else with an open mind and enough patience to sit through an arthouse drama with a slower pace should see this whenever they see fit. It's definitely a unique and, for weirdos like me, somewhat enjoyable (please don't take my usage of that word in the wrong way; I mean, I seriously think the movie is at least a little entertaining, there's plenty of weird, off putting laughs to be had and it is unnerving enough on a minute by minute basis that I was almost always glued to the screen) experience that I'd like to mention also has a very subversive-sort-of visual style, as many of the camera angles are intentionally awkward and just slightly off in some way in order to add to the overall mood of the piece, which is another little motif of Lanthimos (although it is nowhere more apparent than it is here, as many of the shots in a film like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' (exemplified for the third time in this single review, nice going me) are beautiful to look at and do not feel awkward or off at all and instead are incredibly perfect and necessary, but still do have some uncomfortable atmosphere about them, of course) that I find absolutely fascinating.