jeffdiggy
This movie was pretty pointless. Acting, mediocre. Story, pointless. Movie, pointless. The ONLY reason I can fathom it got any awards is for the performance of the DOGS! I mean that...literally. Disconnected movie. And WHY the title?? The movie didn't seem to know what it wanted to be...a 'Ben' type of movie where the rat takes over...the Pied Piper of Hamlin where music tames the savage beast...or even some kind of statement of the wrongs of animal cruelty or Planet Of the Apes scenario with dogs instead of "monkeys" ( which the Chimpanzees didn't like being called). It was just a poor excuse for a movie. Never delved into why the dogs followed Hagen, the chief canine. Never delved into why all the dogs were somehow rabid (was it the nasty water they drank??). It just made no sense at all.
The_late_Buddy_Ryan
A rewarding film if you don't expect too much. Even the scenes that don't involve an enormous pack of dogs rampaging through the streets of Budapest or smaller bands of doggy commandos hunting down their human vics have an unreal, fairytale quality. When 13-year-old Lili is separated from her beloved Hagen (great work by Luke and Body, a couple of strays from Arizona), the two subplots may seem a little shaky on their own, but the final scene, when they're reunited, is a moment of real transcendence. The fuzzy political allegory and the echoes of Hungary's tragic history are somewhat less engaging, IMHO—gun-toting dogcatchers making like an SS Einsatzgruppe, escapees from the dog pound taking to the streets against impossible odds like the rebels of '56, a Roma character ("gyppo" in the subtitles) being cheated and reviled, a downsized professor (Lili's father) working a menial job, even the stray allusions to Liszt and Wagner; could it really be true that owners of "non-Hungarian" dogs have to pay a special tax? (As with other films from this part of the world, you may not be able to tell whether what you're watching is meant to be straightforward realism or some sort of surrealist fantasy.) Horror aficionados will be disappointed by the reticent editing style—FX are limited, and no humans actually had their throats slashed in the making of this film
Fine performances and gorgeous cinematography, an epic feat of dog-wrangling—even if you're tempted to bail, hang on till that final scene.
patoclsdnn
I was scared of this film, mostly because I love dogs and I sympathize with them too much. Having that said, I really liked this film, because it shows a more human side to them, without dwelling into parody (like making them "talk" of performing antics just to entertain us), even though I think the depiction of the life stray dogs have is more tragic than what the film suggests, I am grateful the film didn't resort to the horrors of it.The parallelism with The Birds is very accurate in my opinion, the "invasion" and the effect it has on it's habitants is similar to what I can recall in TB. The acting was on point, specially the canines, even if at some points you could undoubtedly tell some of them were told to play dead, which kind off lessened the film but made them look extra cute...I wholeheartedly hope people, after watching this film, question themselves and discuss among them how are we treating dogs, and how we envision them within our family circle, are they just part of our furniture? Are they members of our family? I think they're the later and we should act accordingly.
Abdul Aziz Saif
What does a film maker do..? Simple answer ''he portrays the sheer depiction of our ruthless environment''. This is what done here. White God is not a film its an experience of 80 minutes that will leave you behind horror-struck. This film follows a dog's journey from beloved pet to become a non-human human, and in the meantime he faces a lot of difficulties and cruelty. He sees another face of our world that he hadn't seen before and it changes him into a wild beast. As the story follows the change of a normal pet into a wild beast it compelled me to feel sorry for being human, It is more beautiful than I thought it would be. A true experience of watching a true cinema, on top of my recommendation list.
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