Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaJacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.
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- 3 vittorie e 6 candidature
- Passerby
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- QuizThe film is selected in the official competition and projected in preview in August 2017 at the International Film Festival in Locarno.
- Citazioni
Max: What about this one? A pedigree dog. Affectionate, gentle, obedient and... doesn't he remind you of someone?
Jacques Blanchot: I don't know.
Max: Take another look!
Jacques Blanchot: No, I have no idea.
Max: Hitler.
«Dog» shows the degradation of Jacques Blanchot (Macaigne), a man who is losing everything, wife, child, home, bank account and job, plus affection, solidarity, and compassion, in a process to which he does not oppose resistance, and that seems common to the viewer. There is a satirical tone behind the story, which makes us smile sometimes, and that we find disconcerting and somehow uncomfortable, because the author does not give us information about the motivation of the events. However, we recognize them, and we know that they refer to social, economic, and political aspects, without resorting to phrases, images or banners that allude to them. The process that Jacques goes through leads to the inevitable, when he is forced to lead a literal dog's life in this phase of savage capitalism.
At the same time, we perceive an ironic reproach directed at those who overestimate dogs, to the point of becoming dehumanized in the face of the drama (social, economic, political) of their peers and prefer animals that do not judge them, that do not make demands on them, and are good company. The dogs, although we insist on applying traits of humanity to their actions, respond to instincts related to physical well-being. And we just see in the film (through the process that Jacques lives) a metaphor of how dogs go through their own canine degradation, by simulating "human traits", becoming the object of transferred affection, and renouncing their canine essence. But dogs can return to their natural state, as we see in shocking scenes in Julio García Espinosa's «Reina y Rey» and Michael Haneke's «Le temps du loup»... and show us who can also rule in a violent world.
A very necessary film, for these times of artificial intelligence and rampant cynicism.
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Botteghino
- Budget
- 3 € (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 30 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1