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.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Honor is a hole

“Barking dogs never bite" is not really a type of honor movie, it’s a story just like happen around us. Yun-ju, a young professor who was lost his title in the beginning, and put all his anger on a barking dog in the neighborhood. Even though I really don’t like the killing dogs part, that’s the way showing the all Yun-ju’s emotion change. It’s like Zillman and Paulus’ theory “Dispositional alignment”. I really like animal specially dogs, so the killing part was against what I believed, that’s also the reason kept me finished the whole film. Compare to the kid and the old lady who lost their dogs to the three male charters killed or ate dogs in the movie, I see the phenomenon in our society. The kid and that old lady represent the innocent part of our society, Yun-ju, the doorman and wanderer shows human’s desire. Yun-ju hated barking dog in the beginning was just like he lost his job, he thought lost job is just upset him like dog barking, and he willing to do everything to get rid of his problem. After he killed two dogs, his wife brought a dog herself, and losing it Yun-ju realized what he doing was wrong. It’s just like his career, he was sad in the beginning because he didn’t get his title. After he bribe the college’s president and get the title as he always wished, he still didn’t look happy. To me, that’s the honor, a fear lives in a person and controls him, after all the struggles, his soul was still empty.

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