SELF IMPROVEMENT

This film is extremely large, the best I've seen in years. The best way to see Dogtooth, the way I was fortunate to be: not a bit of its history. If you have not seen this film, I recommend you stop reading this review emergency and watch currently is on Netflix or any other method you are able.

Anyone still with me? I'll assume you saw the movie and it is blown is your opinion, do you and very inspired and stimulated by the possibilities of this form of cinematic art, as it did for me on both visits (within two weeks), or outraged and disgusted with his "tell-alive", like others with whom I talked about it. Maybe he did little of both. In all If you saw the movie and I do not want to have to warn you of spoilers ahead.

Greek filmmaker Yiorgos Lanthimos has created a film of astonishing power and originality striking. The closest comparison I can do both in style and content, is the work of the Austrian Michael Haneke's provocative - the brilliant filmmaker behind The Seventh Continent (1989), Cache (2005) and White Ribbon ( 2009), to name a few - but Dogtooth perverse sense of humor and Haneke's Funny Games (1997, by Haneke himself in 2007, restored), which is certainly one of his films use humor. How dark, disturbing and sometimes brutal Dogtooth Ultimately, it is hard not to laugh at some of them, and this is clearly the desired effect.

The story of an unusual family in which three adult children (Aggeliki Papoulia Mary Tsoni and Hristos Passalis) of reality were probably protected as long as an authoritarian father (Christos Stergioglou, which recalls the terrifying power performance ) and submissive wife (Michele Valley), with a documentary-style realism said. As mentioned above, it is better to watch this film with as little knowledge as possible to their content, in this way, the profound horror of what happens can gradually penetrate the soul of the viewer turns progressively .

We start with a language course in which the definitions of misleading the "children" has ordered the ignorant and isolated way (for example, as we later learn that the definition of "telephone book" is "salt" ) planes, which may periodically steal fenced compound where the family is held during "fall" in the garden, and rewards to be recovered. The father was a security guard young Christine (Anna Kalaitzidou) used in the factory, he has his son with sexual liberation, which means they know are not so blind to the situation of a totalitarian country and eventually destroy it if necessary. These sexual encounters are depicted as the rest of the film, such as red, business type, and finally, Christine is still buying sexual favors from two female children in the family for little things like a sparkling headband. Gradually, the oldest more aware of the world outside the prison and the other is that they know at home.

As the film progresses, we realize that it was behind four children and the elder brother, and you have escaped to the wall, even if the father of her children to believe that it is dangerous for them the connection until it to move left or right of their "houndstooth". In by far the funniest film sequence, the male child comes to a cat in the garden, seen as a threat, triggered hairy with a pair of garden shears. The father takes this message as an opportunity to explain himself, who became the elder brother, while strengthening its control over other children, who convinced her that the elder brother of a cat, which he described as a powerful monster could even kill them is to kill everyone if they remain in the wall and prepare for battle.

Gradually, the viewer to question whether the prisoner "child" is actually the biological offspring of the mother and father were at all. In a private conversation between two parents, the mother says they are "pregnant" again with twins this time, the father replied: "Triplets" she said, saying it was too. At the end of the discussion, they concluded that they "give birth", and not just another child, but a dog, and probably the Doberman clip we saw that formed at the instigation of his father earlier in the film. If this information is transmitted, the children, "said the mother and more to them than if they behave better, they could stop by birth, but if things continue as they were, they give birth as soon as possible. This gives the disturbing impression that perhaps each of the children were routinely kidnapped and brainwashed by the "parents" in a manner similar to the infamous Jaycee Dugard and similar. The fact that this is not explicitly confirm or deny that more interesting than the film's concept of absolute realism, without the benefit of the exhibition is more effective.

The film also ends on the ambiguous note to the effect that it sticks in the brain after and almost begs to be seen again, a request that I be a happy committed much more often in the coming year. Dogtooth a film that is considered by presenting the most extreme case possible in a way that it feels almost normal, inevitable in any kind of education which traumatized children. It also examines the impact of isolation from the outside world, exploring the idea virtually impossible and completely impracticable impressive in a perverse worldview of the innocent head-empty slate. It's a film ruthless relentless and uncompromising is not an unfamiliar premise of the hearing by M. Night Shyamalan, The Village (2004) and, instead of a round cheap and unconvincing, as the present one implacable reality in which the viewer inevitably involved. Lanthimos has given voice brilliant and original film, and I can hardly shake the power of his breakthrough film.