Dogtooth, Greek with English subtitles. Seen on Zune on Xbox Live. This film is about a family who have been extremely isolated by their parents. No one in the family have names, but there is Father, Mother, Eldest, Boy, and Youngest. No one comes off the property except for the Father and no one comes on to the property except Christina, the young woman the Father pays to have sex weekly with his son. These teenagers are so sheltered they have different meanings for words that their parents just make up. They have to listen to homemade tapes of vocabulary words. They receive stickers for good behavior and the child with the most stickers at the end of the day gets to pick an activity in the evening for the family to partake in. The boy picked videos, homemade videos of themselves playing in the yard. They believe they have a brother on the other side of the fence who they feed and talk to. The father told them their bodies are not strong enough to leave the house until the dogtooth falls out; which is never.
One day Christina gets fed up with unfulfilling sex and cons the Eldest girl to perform oral sex in exchange for a headband. The next week, video tapes of “Rocky” and “Jaws” is what the eldest is bribed with. From now on she calls herself Bruce. She explains she believes a name is to the youngest sister, who now also wants a name. The parents have made the teens believe that airplanes fall out of the sky as toy airplanes. The eldest gets to the airplane first and claims it. The next day the brother is seen playing with the airplane. The eldest sees this and confronts him. He fights her so she goes to the kitchen and cuts him with a butcher's knife. She takes the airplane and throws it over the fence. The father gets the toy for the boy, but since they believe they cannot walk on the pavement unless you are in the car, he has to get into the car and drive about a foot and pick up the car. Eventually the parents figure out what is going on and find the video tapes. The father tapes one of the VHS' to his hand and hits the eldest in the head. Bruce goes to the bathroom with a five pound weight and hits herself until she knocks out the dogtooth. She then hides in the trunk of the car and is not found.
There is more that happens in the film if you can believe it, but I just wanted to summarize as best I could without confusing the timeline of events. I thought this movie was sick and crazy, but new. I have never seen anything like it before and it really keeps you wondering. What were these parents thinking? How was this going to work when their dogtooth never falls out? Would this be considered child endangerment? The film is trying to show how much of an influence parents are on their kids and. I guess, how any one can have children, even crazy psycho people. The mother didn't even go outside the grounds. Its crazy, a horror movie in my eyes.
One day Christina gets fed up with unfulfilling sex and cons the Eldest girl to perform oral sex in exchange for a headband. The next week, video tapes of “Rocky” and “Jaws” is what the eldest is bribed with. From now on she calls herself Bruce. She explains she believes a name is to the youngest sister, who now also wants a name. The parents have made the teens believe that airplanes fall out of the sky as toy airplanes. The eldest gets to the airplane first and claims it. The next day the brother is seen playing with the airplane. The eldest sees this and confronts him. He fights her so she goes to the kitchen and cuts him with a butcher's knife. She takes the airplane and throws it over the fence. The father gets the toy for the boy, but since they believe they cannot walk on the pavement unless you are in the car, he has to get into the car and drive about a foot and pick up the car. Eventually the parents figure out what is going on and find the video tapes. The father tapes one of the VHS' to his hand and hits the eldest in the head. Bruce goes to the bathroom with a five pound weight and hits herself until she knocks out the dogtooth. She then hides in the trunk of the car and is not found.
There is more that happens in the film if you can believe it, but I just wanted to summarize as best I could without confusing the timeline of events. I thought this movie was sick and crazy, but new. I have never seen anything like it before and it really keeps you wondering. What were these parents thinking? How was this going to work when their dogtooth never falls out? Would this be considered child endangerment? The film is trying to show how much of an influence parents are on their kids and. I guess, how any one can have children, even crazy psycho people. The mother didn't even go outside the grounds. Its crazy, a horror movie in my eyes.
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