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Movie Reviews of Straw Dogs
Movie Review: If You Enjoyed the Movie also Check Out the Novel it Was Based On
Summary: 5 Stars
If you enjoyed this movie you should also check out the 1969 Gordon Williams novel The siege of Trencher's Farm which has also be republished with the same title as the movie Straw Dogs. The book has some similarities to the movie but the siege is very different and so are the characters. In the book George has a different wife, he's married to an older 35 year old dark haired woman named Louise. She's a bit more passive than Susan George's played Amy character not as active in the siege resistance and although English, has not returned to her childhood town. The controversial ex boyfriend I don't want to rape you but I will scenes and the second end of shotgun rape scenes are not in the book. The couple also have a child named Karen in the novel who is being bullied by the child of one of the eventual scene instigators. They have never met any other siege participants until that night and the child killer they are sheltering inside the house is actually innocent of the disappearance of a local girl (who is younger and mentally disabled in the book).
I enjoyed both the movie and the book and recommend that you read and watch both these classics which follow the story of a passive man pushed to his limits and forced to become the type of man he formerly despised!
Movie Review: Straw Dogs
Summary: 5 Stars
Sam Peckinpah's controversial film, "Straw Dogs" is a brilliant psychological insight into one's will against violence and potential need for it.
Dustin Hoffman is, as usual, compelling as David Sumners, meek mathematician, who just got married to his beautiful young bride. They are moving to her house in rural England where a group of men are working on her garage. However, they begin to harass her and David, increasingly intensifying their efforts as they realize that David will do nothing about it. However, David cannot take much more, and is finding it harder and harder to control his primal emotions that we all have. What Peckinpah is asking is, is violence a necessity in one's life? Is violence essential to deal with the external conflicts brought on by others? In this case, yes. Violence can only be answered by violence in David's scenario.
While not for the easily disturbed or squeamish, "Straw Dogs" is a film any serious moviegoer should see and praise for it's never lessening vitality and brilliance.
Movie Review: Stranger In A Strange Land...
Summary: 5 Stars
An american mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) and his lovely, british wife (Susan George) move into the wife's childhood home just outside of a small english village. Bad idea! It seems the town is full of miscriants, roughians, drunks, and old tosspots, out to cause trouble at any opportunity! Unfortunately, this leads to the subsequent death of the couple's cat, as well as the (double) rape of the wife! Hoffman's character is a clueless, passive math geek w/ his head full of too many equations to really pay attention. That is until a local child molester (David Warner) winds up in his new abode, causing the aforementioned town thugs to surround the house! This is when the movie shifts into true Sam Peckinpah mode, w/ violent murder, property destruction, and Hoffman's wimpy math wiz turning into an unstoppable juggernaut of retribution! Yep, STRAW DOGS proves the ancient saying that: "Even a rabbit will turn and fight the fox when cornered." Let this be a warning to home invaders everywhere!...Movie Review: A Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazing to think that in December of 1971 theatres had DIRTY HARRY by Don Siegel, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Stanley Kubrick and STRAW DOGS by Sam Peckinpah. Whoa! Saw all three when I was 17 and all made a great impression. STRAW DOGS was -- and remains -- a distincly disturbing film. To what lengths will a man go to defend his home and family? This is a longer version than what actually appeared on movie screens in 1971. This has lost none of it's power. Dustin Hoffmann as a nerdy mathematician who goes to live in his English wife (Susan George) village. The locals see him as a weakling and a former flame rapes his wife. Hoffmann reaches the point where a line cannot be crossed. Despite everything, he will not allow a suspected child molester (David Warner) be taken and goes to extremes to defend his home. You'll never look at a bear trap the same ever again. On a sad note ... this is being remade and set in the deep south. Are all the fools in Hollywood smoking dope?Movie Review: One of the most solid thrillers ever made!
Summary: 5 Stars
When a peaceful mathematics teacher is menaced by a group of hooligans around his house playing to be hard, will suddenly know this sleeper giant which exists in the deepest regions of the human soul.
The rage has never been so eloquent and graphically shown on screen never before. Dustin Hoffman elaborates an impressive portrait of rising fury, irrational behavior when you defy the unknown limits of the patience. To my mind Hoffman made with this towering performance one of five masterworks: Lenny, Little big man, Rain man, Midnight cowboy and this one.
Extraordinary camera work , outstanding performances and frenetic atmosphere in the climax final sequence confirm once more the artistic virtues of Sam Peckinpah one of my favorite American filmmakers ever.