Dogtooth

Alright. I thought that this movie would have been much more...dark. It wasn't really dark, it was just weird. The movie was a lot like Eraserhead. It is probably a good movie, but it just gets weirder and weirder as the movie progresses. There was no real shock value, at least to me, because if I'm going to be shocked, I have to be psychologically. Now I know when the older daughter knocks her right "dogtooth" out it was supposed to be very thrilling, but it didn't do anything for me. Overall I didn't mind it, but it wasn't the best. I know that for a fact that they definitely made it weird for the Greek Weird Wave, but it just got progressively weirder throughout the movie having me question why they were doing stuff, like when they were doing the, I guess, scavenger hunt? Can you call it that? Anyways, the part where the kids are blindfolded and are walking around in the yard to the wooden platform where their mother was. Anyways, the scene that I was going to analyze was the ending five minutes or so. The oldest daughter went to the bathroom and then knocked her right canine out and then hid in her father's Mercedes Benz's trunk. The youngest daughter went to the father's room and started licking him, to what I assume is to wake him up. He got up and started searching for the oldest daughter outside of the boundaries of their house. The kids and the mom started barking like dogs and the youngest daughter also called out Bruce, since the oldest daughter said that she would respond if the youngest daughter called the older one Bruce. They couldn't find her, so they stopped looking. Later, the dad and mom were at their table and he told her to drink the orange juice, for some reason. As an aside, I don't know what it is about the recurring theme of the orange juice, but whatever. Anyways, the dad went to his job and the camera shot to the trunk and just ended with that. It was not really the ending that I thought, but it is what Lanthimos wanted. I was expecting the ending to be the oldest daughter getting out of the trunk and running away Rocky style and whatnot, since she watched Rocky when the girl that was banging the son gave her the VHS tape for *ahem* service downstairs (if you know what I mean.) I wanted it to be really stereotypical modern movies where the main character gets away free and clear. It of course didn't happen like that. The movie also lived up to the hype of being "weird," so Lanthimos should be proud of that. The younger daughter was also pretty good looking, which was pretty nice.