I'm watching Isle of Dogs.
I like the character models in this move but they do STARE DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA a lot
Isle of Dogs
So the high concept of this seems straightforward. It's a movie about dogs that don't understand human language, so the humans speak in a language that the English-speaking audience probably doesn't understand.
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oh no scarjo is here
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I'm trying to figure out if the dogs are just meant to be read as emotionally complex dogs. Not sure how frivolous it's trying to be
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I just can't help but think about that Jack Saint video about talking dog movies. Like, if dogs had human-level intelligence then it wouldn't make sense for them to view the master-pet relationship as an inherent good
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I guess it's a little weirder in this movie since it's not dogs vs cats but explicitly dogs vs (some of the) humans. And while the dogs are mostly eager to return to a master-pet relationship there are at least some that are conflicted or uninterested in returning to that
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okay so now there's a scene that frames the dog-human thing as a sort of marriage which is. Hmm. I dunno
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Chief/Bryan Cranston and Spots/Liev sound exactly the same, making those scenes challenging
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Okay, I'm done. At the end of the day, I can definitely say this is mostly a movie about dogs.
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"savage aboriginal dogs" oh fuck off