Infamousta
brilliant actors, brilliant editing
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
randytercero
I didn't see the humor here but understand that a dominant sick father can control his family with fear. Don't waste your time or believe the hype. It could have been better
riven-yuki
This is my first review here. Now, as the title says, just because we can do it, doesn't always mean we should every weird ****** idea in a movie. the 3/10 I gave was because the message was good and new. But it's portrayed in the weirdest way possible. The movie talk about the dangers of keeping children from the outside world for the sake of "protecting them", but you don't need nudity, extreme sexual themes and animal violence to do that. If you really want to express sexual desires, you can do it just by showing vague stuff(like actors taking off their shirts and hen cutting) that imply what you want. People will understand your message and you won't have to show all these adult scenes, which are just scarring really and not fun in any way.
OneEightNine Media
The most twisted and revolting film I have ever seen. This film is sick but an interesting study in human nature and also unfortunately entertaining. ScreenJunkies put this on my radar. I honestly do not know what to say, humans can be this sick and twisted. Just look at what is going on in Burma right now - so yeah, morally evil stuff happens a lot but now the next level horror has found its way into mainstream entertainment over the past ten years or so. Does that mean as a society, we are changing to normalize the horrors of the world as it continues to drop into the lowest common denominator where was I? Whatever. We're finished here.
batuhancanliturk
Authority is a person or organization having political or administrative power and control. Governments have authority on their people or on other states. Understanding the fact that authority is the reason of major events that we are not aware while time is swift. We should consider of our parents as an authority in minor scale. This is exactly what Dogtooth wants us to think of.Authoritarian father, his wife and his children live in peace and quiet isolated house with the garden. All events that happen is known by the father who obsessively wants to raise his children with his rules and his understandings. There are no diversity between the children to ensure consistency like the governments do. In the name of becoming uniform, children have no names. Hence, they can not develop their identities. They are all same to the father which is ruler. There are rules for everything and the rewards for achieving tasks. If we have rewards, there must be punishments too for the unsuitable actions. These are strong components of the system which runs by the father. Language is created by parents too. They change words' meaning like in pussy and zombie scenes. That is another example for use of power. Beside that, he keep his authority on his children in patriarchal way. He assigns task for his elder daughter to satisfy her brother who had previously a woman to meet his sexual urges like a robot. On the other hand, there is even no chance to talk about his daughters. Raising his children with this attitude keeps them stay in their childish behaviors. We can view that in many scenes such as arguing about the plane toy and sleeping with their parents. They can not grow to maturity.Children obtain information about everything without questioning from the tape which has recorded before. It is their only way to learn something such as geometry. We have also seen that in the record player scene which the father makes wrong translations for maintaining loyalty to the authority and the family. He also ensures his sovereignty by this action. Fear is another need for achieve his monopoly. All the dinners should be attended formally. Remember the scene that his daughters discusses their dresses are okay or not. Because they are afraid of their fathers reaction if he finds anything improper. In order to block interactions with the outer world between his children, father removes all labels and tags on the products they use. This idea makes me think about the North Korea. People of North Korea get what their leader gives.All the mess begin with the woman who is a security guard. When she wants to misuse elder child for the first time, elder starts to learn from her about the outer world. Because of routine of reward system, she did not hesitate to fulfill her demands and maintain the same attitude for her sister. Movie tapes leaves bigger impression for the elder. The idea of leaving started to grow. However when she decided to leave, she tried with the way that defined by the father which says they can only leave if their dog-tooth's fall down. Another example of outer world encounter is the cat. It becomes another fear and misery for the children. Misery always pull people to its unknown that the father uses a lot.Finally, I want to add two more things which light upon. First one is mirroring between the dog trainer and the father. They both work for "cultivating" of their "pupils". Second is perception of happiness. Whether if we talked about father's actions is proper or not, children are happy to be there. It is like us in our tiny worlds without realizing anything out of it.
