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 uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
The movie shows how parents can indoctrinate their children into anything. Some people find it odd, but consider the mythological indoctrination all around us, I think this movie presents a highly plausible scenario.
No wonder why the Academy got the downhill. Probably this should have won Golden Berry award. Brothers and sisters getting laid? Is this art? Sick to my stomach.It would have won the first award in Las Vegas though
A little group of grown up children commanded by a couple of weak and dominant humans who take the control of them using just the language. This movie give you answers to things you never asked, but you should. Watching this I thought things about the reason why we bring the kids to the school and what happen to farmers living far one from another. This movie is a crude exploration to the effects of the controlled isolation and the power relationship between those who know nothing and the people in charge.
Having recently seen Yorgos Lanthimos' "The lobster", I was well aware of what to expect from this early job of his. Maybe "The lobster" weakened the punch that only the first film from a director can deliver. Perhaps altering the viewing order would have swapped my opinion in both films. Or perhaps I simply find Lanthimo's essay in family bonds, seclusion and education flat and too unnatural.Yorgos Lanthimos' fresh breath in cinema is always welcome. The weird and tense atmosphere of Dogtooth is masterfully crafted, if sometimes over the line and beyond. The overuse of explicit sexual themes and some graphic scenes may drive some people away. While some are there for a reason, many are thrown in for pure shock value.Yet it is the forced innexpressivenes of the actors that bothers me the most. Trying to recreate a mechanical, unaffective behavior of three teenagers raised in seclusion, their lack of expression goes often over the top failing to create any kind of response on the viewer. The lack of sense in some of the parents' actions and the children's lack of any analytical skill doesn't help a film that goes too far to reiterate the same concept over and over.Dogtooth's open ending may fit best a film of his kind, but ultimately leaves the viewer with too hollow a sensation of non- conclusion after over ninety minutes of reiteration.