Kynodontas(Greek) : Dogtooth(English) :: A moview review
James Ahongsangbam *
Movie Title:
Kynodontas(Greek)
Dogtooth(English)
Genre: Drama.
Directed by: Giorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis
Running Time: 1 hr 30 min
Three teenagers are kept isolated from the normal world to a very isolated countryside by their parents. They were made to learn new vocabulary from a tape recorded at home.
Any new normal words that come to their knowledge are assigned new meanings by their parents like "sea" refers to armchair, "zombie" to a yellow flower. Christina, a security guard is the only other non-family member who enters the compound; her job is to satisfy the male teenager sexually. Christina tired of this tries the female teenager and disturbs the entire balance.
The father is the only family member who moves out of the compound for their requirements.
This film is not for everyone, but a lovely science fiction movie based on social values definitely deserves a true new taste. The narrative nature and the sad reality shown in the movie are fantastic. Overall it deserves a very good film. The journey's pretty interesting though.
* James Ahongsangbam wrote this review for e-pao.net
The writer is a resident of New Delhi and can be contacted at shangbam(at)live(dot)com
This article was posted on August 03, 2012.
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