Movie Review and Horror Theory

Write a 200-word movie review of Barking Dogs Never Bite, in which you examine specific examples from the movie that apply to the horror theories discussed in class. Please contact me if you need access to the film on Netflix.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Barking Dogs Movie Review

 As I watched the movie I had some clue and felt like it is a lesson not a horrible movie. The male character Yoon-ju was used to be a college lecturer. He felt gloomy to have not job and also there were dogs in his resident building. The negative mood toward to dogs and he intended to kill the dog which belong to a little girl at the beginning. Instead of killing dog, he locked the dog in the closet of basement. According to Zillman’s excitation transfer theory, Yoon-ju would fell pleasure after relieve his negative mood. Since he have been unemployed he had plenty time deal with dog issue. Then he actually murdered the dog that own to an old lady. That was a horrible and cruel act which normal human being is not doing such thing. When Yoon-ju met a lady named Hyun-nam, her selfless disposition admired Yoon-ju. It is good ending that Yoon-ju realized that his acts to dog is not moral and involve someone else’s life and indirect take away the one’s life (i.g the old lady). The movie also reflects the phenomena of bribe in the South Korean society. To be survive and living in a life is hard sometime one have to adjust their principle to the society. It is worth to watch it.    

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