Barking Dogs Movie Review

irst of all, I feel disgusting in the beginning of the movie when the dog is hanged up and I seriously suspect the subtitle which says no animals are being misused before the movie starts. Look at the poses that the pity dog strikes, it looks so real that it is actually being hanged. And also in the fall of the second dog, see how it flies? The movie is made in 2000 and how it is possible to make the movie special effects so real.
Back to the movie, Yun-Ju is stressful of being unemployed and his stress turns into hatred when he hears the annoying dog barks. It stimulates his mind and motivates his thought of murdering the dog. After he finds the dog, he cannot bear himself to throw it off the building so he locks the dog to the closet in the basement. Again, the dog barks never stop. He notices there is another dog with an old woman who lives alone under his apartment. He plans to kill it and this time he becomes a professional dog killer. It is so sad that he throws the dog hardly off the building. Here we can apply Zuckerman’s theory, “Sensation seeking: appeal in which high sensation seeking people are said to be attracted to horror because of the increased levels of sensation these takes provide.” Yun-Ju’s heartlessness has increased in these two incidents. Even though he didn’t kill the first dog but it is ate by the guard because Yun-Ju took it there. The second time he actually kills it and once again the guard eats it! The audiences must hate these two guys so much through the scenes of horror is added more and more.
Also the movie is dramatic. Aristotle says, “Dramatic portrayals gave the audience an opportunity to purge itself of certain negative emotions.” I believe everyone who hates Yun-Ju in the beginning has differed their thoughts along with how Yun-Ju changes in the end of the story. Yun-Ju changes a lot after he realizes his wife has sacrificed herself with the money to bribe the dean to obtain the position of being a professor. He spends the whole night looking for the dog and confesses for his murder act.
This is a not too scary but an unusual black comedy and it is enjoyable to watch the humor in this movie except some lens of misusing the dogs.