A dog girl submitting herself to weary love. A film where affection crosses sideways in a curious love triangle: a boy who takes, a girl who gives and a dog who dies. Is she somewhat possessed in the end or just beyond words? You should care.
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Omphali6 July 2003
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bob the moo1 April 2003A teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted area with him and he begins to touch her up and have sex with her, however a dog reveals the true nature of her boyfriend.
Screened as part of the BBC2 compilation of shorts entitled `Ways to leave your lover' this was probably the most realistic depiction of modern romance for many people - fumbled sex, selfish relationships with self seeking, unstable people. However it does make for a pretty bleak short film. The depiction of the `love making' is so without any type of opinion or sensationalism that it is very real.
The meaning in the `dog' and the reaction of Leah when she gets home is a little too hard to read and I must admit to not totally getting it. However it is still very sharp and bleak, mainly because I (and I'm sure many others) can relate to this story a lot easier than I could to the other, more comic, stories told in the same season of shorts.
Bleak and honest but the meaning is a little unclear at the end. -
Horst_In_Translation27 August 2017"Dog" is a British 10-minute film from 2001, so this had its 15th anniversary last year and it was written and directed by (then not yet) Oscar winner Andrea Arnold. It's from the days when she made many short films, but still way past her very early television days. This one we got here is really not good in my opinion, perhaps the filmmaker's weakest career effort. Violence is fine, but it must make sense in the overall picture. The fact that a girl concentrates on a dog and laughs at it while making out with her boyfriend is not justification enough for what happens afterward. Yes he does seem like somebody carrying a lot of anger and frustration inside him, but it still did not convince me at all in terms of story-telling and after that, the epilogue with the girl barking at her mother was really just the tip of the negative iceberg. Extremely disappointing film we got here, I'm glad it was that short. All for the sake of shocking audiences, no substance no real depth. Don't watch.