Dogtooth

Written by Lelja, one of our poetry writers, and edited by Greg, one of our editors!

What would happen if I didn’t understand the concept of outside? I only new about the fence and the tennis ball that magically launches itself in the garden trough such fence. What would happen if cats were the most dangerous animals on earth and the only way to protect my self was to bark like a dog. What would happen if human beings were nothing but all the people I know. What does it mean to be different when we are all here sharing clothes, words and haircuts. What does it mean to be sexually awake when I only know family.

Human nature, is distrusting because it’s intuitive. Yorgos Lanthimos showed us how no matter how far a family man decided to go to control and preserve his idyllic idea of a perfect family. People are animals and they have instincts that will prevail any sort of control. We are not meant to be controlled. Dogtooth is an incredibly disturbing but not disgusting take on incest, seen as nothing more than youthful curiosity and patriarchal psychological abuse in its most psychologically disturbing form.

The patriarch of the family constructed a very subtle narrative ever so slightly detached from reality that will make maddening if not impossible integrating to society. We observe his three children live in this world he carefully constructed to be so slightly wrong, so slightly off track that the rest of the world. The dissonance he chooses to implement to teach to his kids is curated with psychopathic precision.

What is a cat but the worst, most dangerous creature in the world? How lese can one be safe from a can if by not getting on all fours and barking their lungs out!

The children are slowly loosing their mind in very different way. Disturbed by the small contradictions that make it unsettling to accept reality. They are all so different. The oldest one decided to brake. She chooses to brake. She uses her intelligence and crates an opportunity from violence. She does not question the validity of the rules of that world though.

Her canine had to fall for her to be free.

The most unsettling part of for me was the mother. Why was she part of it? Did she know? She must have.

Why?

Incredibly captivating with airy beautiful imagery this feature never ceased to make me question reality as it was appearing in front of my eyes. I guess that was the point.

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This piece was written by one of our film writers, Lelja. Reach her at @l.e.j.la on Instagram!

This piece was edited by one of our editors, Greg! Reach him at @Gtomaini on Instagram and Twitter!

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