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Movie Reviews of Baxter
Movie Review: Dog Lovers Be Very Aware
Summary: 4 Stars
...because after viewing this film you may find yourself thinking,"What in the hell is going on in my dog's head?". Is your dog really as sweet as you think? He/she sure has a lot of time to think doing all that lying around. People snap all the time and we somehow always find it shocking. Dogs are much more closely connected to that wild genetic material that is telling them to stalk, hunt, kill. I originally saw this movie about 15 years ago and it has stuck with me. A stunning study in existentialism.Movie Review: Too dark for me
Summary: 1 Stars
I struggled with whether I could in good conscience recommend this film for any reason. The film is indeed very original and has good acting and production values. But the dog who is the central character is more a metaphor for the depraved depths of the human psyche; certainly the traits attributed to it have nothing to do with dogs and everything to do with human sociopathic behavior and mental illness. And yet viewers will have great difficulty not empathizing with it as a dog. WARNING - SPOILER AHEAD: I had a knot in my stomach from the first seconds of the film through the violent and disturbing denouement in which the boy abuses and kills the dog, yet kept watching in the absurd hope that somehow the filmmaker would find a way to redeem the story. The ending was very unsatisfactory: the boy lies about the incident and goes back to his suburban existence. Not only is this just too depraved for my tastes, but it makes no sense in terms of the boy's persona, which is totally obsessed with Hitler's final days and suicide.
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