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MOVIE OF THE DAY: WHITE DOG

post #1 of 6
11/3/10 at 6:01pm
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/26...DOG/Page1.html

CHUD keeps trying to eat this, but I know how you all love MOD, so I'm fighting it.

Or maybe I just like making threads!
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post #2 of 6
11/3/10 at 6:02pm
This played BNAT 2 years ago but I've seen it before on cable. It's a really good Fuller.
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post #3 of 6
11/3/10 at 6:20pm
The scene at the end when the owner shows up with his kids(grandkids?) is a very awkward and uncomfortable moment in the film. I remember watching this over a year ago and thinking I was glad I'd bought the Criterion DVD from the $5 resale bin of a video store. I did however enjoy the dog trainer's rationalization at the end that "if you can't fix it, shoot it."
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post #4 of 6
11/3/10 at 6:33pm
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The scene at the end when the owner shows up with his kids(grandkids?) is a very awkward and uncomfortable moment in the film. I remember watching this over a year ago and thinking I was glad I'd bought the Criterion DVD from the $5 resale bin of a video store. I did however enjoy the dog trainer's rationalization at the end that "if you can't fix it, shoot it."
Yeah, I actually loved that scene. Bring your cute grandkids to hide your racist ass! I really loved her tearing into him like ... well ... a white dog. :P

The ending is horrible. I didn't want to spoil anything but it does seem to imply that behavior can't be changed, period. And it suggests the animal is just inherently evil and making conscious choices instead of being the abused thing it was.
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post #5 of 6
11/4/10 at 3:57am
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The ending is horrible. I didn't want to spoil anything but it does seem to imply that behavior can't be changed, period. And it suggests the animal is just inherently evil and making conscious choices instead of being the abused thing it was.
The abuse themes are heightened by naive and ignorant attitude of the main character through most of the story. If the girl had payed more attention to the dog's quirks before the holy shock revelation, less people would have been hurt. The whole movie seems to be a strange social statement on human conditioning with attention to programming and primal viscousness. All that still doesn't help when the plot drags ass and the film takes itself way too seriously.
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post #6 of 6
11/4/10 at 4:17am
I like the ending because I've known enough old racists that I knew they weren't going to change, only die. Making that point I think is true, but also suggests that racists are dogs to be put down. I'm cool with that.
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