Dogtooth Film Analysis

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There are many films out there in the world of cinema where the audience has only seen the film from one angle. It is like going to the beach and all you can see is the surface of the ocean when there is so much more than just the surface. Film writers and directors want the audience to dig deeper and watch the film from multiple angles and different perspectives. Many films aim at a truth that they are trying to portray to the audience. The truth doesn’t necessarily have to be presented directly in a film. It is often times implied and therefore the audience must be willing to go beyond than what was shown on the screen. The movies, Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos, Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach, and Little Rock by Mike Ott are all movies who are …show more content…
Frances Ha is the name of the main character who is a twenty-seven year old woman who works for a dance company. The style of this film is opposite of Dogtooth because the script is not fictional but rather an experience that can occur to anyone and probably has occurred many times. This film is an example of the movement, MumbleCore. According to an article from WhatCulture the author Robert Grimmick states, “Most of the films are independent productions and usually are €œslice of life€ features. The characters are just average people - slackers in most cases - who are struggling with day-to-day obstacles like paying their bills and dealing with their friends, family and significant others.” MumbleCore films are known for emphasizing the struggles of life and dealing more with reality than fiction. The film starts off with Frances breaking up with her boyfriend. That’s only one the many struggles that she faces throughout the movie. For example, she has to find a place to live because her best friend is moving and Frances can’t afford to live with her best friend. The reason she can’t afford it, is because the dancing company she works had basically took her off the next performance so she would not have gotten paid. All the hardships and challenges that Frances faces seem to connected in one way or another. However, throughout the movie Frances kept a smile on her …show more content…
While Dogtooth and Frances Ha can be similar in a sense that life is hard and therefore those parents did not want their children to go down the wrong path which is a very common path, one can also infer that Frances Ha and Littlerock have similarities as well. Frances is very childish and she looks for the little things in life that make her happy which Atsuko would definitely agree with because she loves the plain and simple and that made her happy. The differences in the movies would be the style in which the films were shot. While Dogtooth points out the horrors of society and how it can corrupt a person, Frances Ha emphasizes that one can still be happy through the challenges they face in everyday life. The difference between Frances and Atsuko is that Atsuko, although they’re both naive to some extent, Atsuko having a language barrier puts her at a higher disadvantage. If the message of staying happy while facing the hardships of life was applied to Atsuko, she would not have been happy because of her innocence. She would have been used just like in Littlerock when the guy she liked cheated on her. The truth conveyed in Littlerock is very different from the truth being aimed in Dogtooth and that is in a sense that one had a fictional script however, one can say that having cheated on is one of the horrors of life and therefore the parents know about those horrors. Just

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