This film harvested mainly positive reviews, although I really do not understand why. Right, you can read it as a parable about oppression, a dystopia where only pets have any humanity left. But it is too mixed to become really interesting.
Hagen is the Spartacus of the dogs, leading the rebellion against the humans. Lili is Hagen's human. Her father abandons Hagen in the street and from now on the dog is on his own. He has to escape the municipal dog catchers. At last a homeless transfers him to somebody who will train him as fight dog. Once Hagen has learned how to be aggressive, he also knows to do. He becomes the leader of a dog army. They take revenge against those who mistreated them before.
Lili's story is a sub plot. She is coming of age, maybe having her first romance soon and playing the trombone in a school orchestra. She is estranged from her father - we have seen it all so many times before, and in more authentic versions.
It takes a lot of time until the movie starts going. More than the first half of the film is exposition; the abandoned dog getting brutalized and the girl wandering around and trying to find her former pet --- with lots of idle running. When they canine start their uprising, is becomes more Hagen's personal vendetta. That looks like a horror movie - Disney meets zombie films.
While the end ends in a transcendent way, no catharsis is going to occur. Foe me this flm worked on no level. I try to look at it from different angels, but all I see is futile underachievement
4/10
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Hagen is the Spartacus of the dogs, leading the rebellion against the humans. Lili is Hagen's human. Her father abandons Hagen in the street and from now on the dog is on his own. He has to escape the municipal dog catchers. At last a homeless transfers him to somebody who will train him as fight dog. Once Hagen has learned how to be aggressive, he also knows to do. He becomes the leader of a dog army. They take revenge against those who mistreated them before.
Lili's story is a sub plot. She is coming of age, maybe having her first romance soon and playing the trombone in a school orchestra. She is estranged from her father - we have seen it all so many times before, and in more authentic versions.
It takes a lot of time until the movie starts going. More than the first half of the film is exposition; the abandoned dog getting brutalized and the girl wandering around and trying to find her former pet --- with lots of idle running. When they canine start their uprising, is becomes more Hagen's personal vendetta. That looks like a horror movie - Disney meets zombie films.
While the end ends in a transcendent way, no catharsis is going to occur. Foe me this flm worked on no level. I try to look at it from different angels, but all I see is futile underachievement
4/10
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| Since now we bark back |
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| Hagen (best actor in White God) is getting p***edoff |
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