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Pretty Awful
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66Trust Points
Wick's Review
Summary - Pretty Awful 0.5
“Dogtooth” is a curiously unappealing title, even given this celebrated movie’s self-conscious weirdness. Somehow Dogtooth made my Gotta View List, so I ultimately got around to viewing it. What a mistake.
It tells the story of a wealthy and robotic Greek family who use code for common words, and engage in passionless sex acts with one another and a grim concubine. 99%er fantasy, basically.
None of it makes objective sense, so to hell with any deeper meaning. Plus there’s subtitles – not worth it.
Worse, it commits the cinematic cardinal sin of boredom. It’s also flat, despite the copious sex.
Dogtooth won quite a few awards around the globe and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar. The juries must have seen something I missed. To that end, let me disclose that after suffering through the first half of this lame movie, I hopscotched through the rest of it. Thus there is a chance that its brilliance was revealed in parts I missed. Whaddya think the odds are of that?
Acting - Barely OK 2.0
Male Stars - Barely OK 2.0
Female Stars - Barely OK 2.0
Female Costars - Barely OK 2.0
Male Costars - Barely OK 2.0
Film - Pretty Awful 0.5
Direction - Awful 0.0
Dialogue - Awful 0.0
Music - Awful 0.0
Visuals - OK 2.5
Edge - Risqué 2.0
The sex isn’t sexy, even if it is fairly graphic.