Dogtooth

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This might be it. I seen a lot of bad films but this is one pointless piece of crap. What is this?? No emotions. Like a robot reading a book. Anything else than this will be more interesting.. Even watching the weather forecast is 100 times more exciting. You who rate this anything above 1 of 10... Don´t you need more in life than this? Wow...

An authoritarian voice teaches young adults that the word sea designate an object on which you can sit. In that introduction all has been said about a story speaking of different moral rules inside a family isolated. The other strange rules are weirder and wisely directed by Lanthimos which third feature is his best and can tear comparisons with Michael Haneke, Amat Escalante, Alexei Balabanov, Gela Babluani and other young filmmakers in the way they put a cold reflection on the world and its problems. One can not stop thinking of the Natasha Kampush case. But the real transcending thing of this movie and its bonus is the metatextual reference to cinema as a 'literaly' and metaphorical weapon against rules and reiteration of theses and even dialogs. This movie is clearly a masterwork and believe me when I say it will be a cult movie.

Dogtooth is a bizarre, disturbing and thought-provoking Greece movie. In the story, a stern patriarch and his obedient wife keep their teenage son and two teenage daughters cloistered from the world and misinformed about the world. For example, they teach their children new words with absurdly inaccurate definitions e.g."zombie" defined as a little yellow flower. On the surface, the film is about the influence of authoritarian parents on their children. From the political perspective, the movie can also be viewed as a political satire on the absurdity and terror of dictatorships which gain their power through violence, fraud, brainwashing, the control of mass media, satisfaction of basic needs, etc. Besides, the film also shed light on humans' curiosity. The audience will be amused by its absurdity, shocked by its gore and sex and impressed by its uniqueness and political satire.

Unecessary violence, odd dialogues peculiar scenes. That's is not art is a mix of scenes without meaning. That's why it gained so many awards.

3/10. I am disappointed because I expected much more because of the positive comments. The plot of the film is very interesting and unusual, but it was too slow and at times boring. In the end, I hoped to explain everything, but there was no explanation, it remained undefined, unfinished and without a point. The only thing I really liked about the film was the acting which was good.

From the very start this is worrying and bewildering. Gradually we become to understand what is going on but it remains worrying. Quite right too because this, allowing for some artistic licence, is what happens when a parent decides to rule supreme and the other parent goes along. Most often we hear of such phenomena in parts of the US, often with a particular religious involvement/justification. But here carried to absolute extreme, before our very eyes, is the full effect of 'loving parents' who cannot allow the outside world, in any form, to challenge their own idea of 'bringing up children'. Some have referred to this as 'amusing', well I smiled once or twice but basically, this is horrifying throughout. Albeit fascinating.

If you liked films like Dancer in the Dark, Funny Games or Dogville, then you will probably like it and it's definitely worth your time. This movie is so unexpected and has some weird sex scenes and also has some awful and out of the blue violence. it was a pain to watch and in the end left you wondering...What is going on in this movie? Don't expect any clear answers. "Dogtooth" is all about leaving interpretations up to you. In the other hand, It's mostly 90 minutes of really, really boring static camera angles and people talking nonsense, with very brief snippets of something vaguely violent or sexual. The idea of this movie was good and promising but like many other movies the ending went nowhere and was bad. "Dogtooth" nearly swept the inaugural edition of the Greek Film Academy's awards with victories in the categories of best film, director, screenplay and supporting actor. What is going on in Greek movies?! I don't think this movie deserve it!

A couple has kept their three adult children in isolation all of their lives. The siblings do lessons from tapes and do tests for stickers. They have strange ideas about the world outside. Only the father goes outside to be a factory manager. Christina works as security for the factory. The father brings in Christina to have scheduled sex with the son. The interactions bring about unusual results. This is a strange movie about a strange family. It is unusual. One imagines all the strange interior cultures that could arise from isolation. The use of deadpan mannerisms really work to make these characters awkward and alien. They have strip them of their modern civility.