White God (2014)
The unwanted will have their day.
- Interesting story telling method.
- It's like Oliver and Company, except brutal and live action.
- Will probably provoke an emotional response out of the majority of viewers.
- Dogs are dang well trained.
- Outside of the daughter, every human character is pretty easy to hate. This was probably intentional, but a movie where you hate everyone is still a movie where you hate everyone.
- Some of these scenes are brutal to watch, and I'm not a huge pet-person.
- I'm pretty sure this movie would be a lot less happy if it rolled for another ten minutes.
While certainly a fantastically put together art-style piece with a potent message that drills far deeper than simply "treat the pets good or the pets will murder you all in your sleep," I can't outright recommend this to a lot of people. Most pet-inclined folks will probably find it exceptionally hard to make it through to the end - particularly after things start to get real dark. That being said, it is really well put together to get as much across as it does when there's no comical pet-voices, no cartoon lightheartedness, and no real pulled punches. As a counterpoint to that - once was enough for me, and I don't expect to re-watch this in the foreseeable future, so if you do decide to tread it's waters, you may want to go with a rental first.
Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhiteGodFilm Winner of Cannes Film Festival's Prize Un Certain Regard Award and official selection of Sundance Film Festival, White God premieres in theatres March 27th, 2015. Kornel Mundruczo's newest film is a story of the indignities visited upon animals by their supposed "human superiors," but it's also an brutal, beautiful metaphor for the political and cultural tensions sweeping contemporary Europe.