I felt a sense of powerlessness after watching "Dog God". Who on earth came up with this brainless title? Can't we use another intuitive translation "Human Dog" as the title of the film in mainland China? So misleading!
Also, even if we want to protect the area, can we treat the excellent and powerful imported films a little more fairly? I don’t know how other areas are like. In my film "Dog God", I was stingy in arranging the films, which made me delay. It’s been a long time since I watched this most taboo-level redemption movie of 2023.
Also, now I don’t quite understand the way domestic theaters select films. Logically speaking, director Luc Besson, who is known as the “French Spielberg”, has films such as “The Killer Isn’t Too Cold” and “Super Body”. "Works such as "Hurricane" with high reputation, high box office, and humanistic care should be among the first movies recommended by theaters in various countries.
However, the domestic promotion of "Dog God" has been very perfunctory. So far, the box office of "Dog God" in China is 10 million. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the biggest legacy of the theater chain!
has complained about domestic theaters, let's return to "The Dog God" itself. The inspiration for the movie comes from the documentary articles that Luc Besson once read.
The content is about a child who was imprisoned in a cage by his father for 4 years. The obviously perverted father tried to use the imprisoned child to imagine how he would survive, how he would escape from the cage, and what his life would be like in the future.
Just listening to the brief introduction, I can imagine that this is a realistic story that is extremely scary to contemplate. However, in the end, the movie did not make it into a dark story, but used abundant emotions to tell a story about the adult world. warm fairy tale.
The story begins with a "lady" who clearly imitates Marilyn Monroe. He is sitting in a car covered in blood. When the police pull a gun on him, thinking they have encountered a perverted criminal, he calmly clicks. Through the smoke, you can see through the firelight that this is a "women's clothing boss" with heavy makeup, and there are hundreds of dogs in the compartment of his heavy truck.
He is the male protagonist Doug. That night he killed more than a dozen gangsters with his dogs. In order to clarify this bloody and vicious case, the police called a psychiatrist. During their conversation, The extreme life of the male protagonist is slowly revealed.
In most vicious events, family seems to be the original sin, and Doug lives in a perverted, low-income family.
His father and brother make a living by raising dogs and fighting dogs. They never treat the stray dogs they take in well, and they are half-starved for a long time. The kind-hearted Doug does not agree with the abuse by his father and brother, so he secretly feeds the puppies.
All subsequent hardships started from this kind act. After the father learned that his son secretly fed the dog, he directly picked him up from the dining table, dragged him directly to the dog cage and locked him up.
In the following days, his father and brother never cared about him, but his helpless mother left this perverted home after secretly bringing him food once.
The turning point is that after a stray dog gave birth to a litter of paparazzi, the father wanted to sell the puppies for money. Doug, who had been silently enduring in order to protect the puppies, confronted his father for the first time.
's legs were broken by an angry father with a shotgun. Although his father and brother knew that he was in trouble, they still did not treat Doug. In the cage, he directed the puppy to put his severed fingers in a plastic bag and found The police were eventually rescued.
If childhood and adolescence were hardships, the subsequent unrequited love gave him another heavy blow.
That was when the rescued Doug was in the orphanage. His long-term isolation from others made him very lonely. At this time, a female teacher walked into his closed world, taught him various makeup styles, and told him: You can do whatever you want.
Doug began to smile and paid attention to everything about the female teacher. When he overcame various difficulties and was ready to confess his love to the female teacher, he found out that the female teacher had a husband and was pregnant. This time, his unrequited love made him heartbroken. Feeling pathetic and ridiculous, I returned to the stray animal rescue center.
People like him are destined to find it difficult to integrate into society. As an adult, Doug applied for jobs everywhere in order to make a living, but was rejected by all of them. The last place where he was left was the cross-dressing stage.
In this way, he moved into an abandoned factory with stray dogs while looking for a painless life in the cross-dressing stage.
All this ended when the gangs bullied him. He used dogs to fight back against the gangs, and finally became the weak but kind-hearted dark hero.
After watching the movie, I felt particularly agitated. The male protagonist Doug had a childhood that could destroy his entire life. In a city overcrowded with people, the only thing he owned was a group of unwanted stray dogs. If such a character turns dark, it would really be terrible. There's nothing to be surprised about.
But Doug gave the most courageous attitude in making choices again and again. He chose to be a good person in this crazy world!
There are no superheroes or absolute villains in this movie, but after we understand what the "villain" in Doug's life is, we will feel the pain of the scar.
The scene that impressed me the most in the entire movie was Doug’s expressionless expression when he told about his life experiences, as if he was talking about things that happened to others.
No wonder after watching this movie, many people compared Doug to the former clown. They are indeed characters of the same series, but one chose good and the other chose evil.
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