christopher-underwood
From the very start this is worrying and bewildering. Gradually we become to understand what is going on but it remains worrying. Quite right too because this, allowing for some artistic licence, is what happens when a parent decides to rule supreme and the other parent goes along. Most often we hear of such phenomena in parts of the US, often with a particular religious involvement/justification. But here carried to absolute extreme, before our very eyes, is the full effect of 'loving parents' who cannot allow the outside world, in any form, to challenge their own idea of 'bringing up children'. Some have referred to this as 'amusing', well I smiled once or twice but basically, this is horrifying throughout. Albeit fascinating.
riven-yuki
This is my first review here. Now, as the title says, just because we can do it, doesn't always mean we should every weird ****** idea in a movie. the 3/10 I gave was because the message was good and new. But it's portrayed in the weirdest way possible. The movie talk about the dangers of keeping children from the outside world for the sake of "protecting them", but you don't need nudity, extreme sexual themes and animal violence to do that. If you really want to express sexual desires, you can do it just by showing vague stuff(like actors taking off their shirts and hen cutting) that imply what you want. People will understand your message and you won't have to show all these adult scenes, which are just scarring really and not fun in any way.
WubsTheFadger
Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadgerFirst off, I'm not a big fan of foreign films, but this one blew me away. The story is mysterious and tense throughout the entire film. The plot is dark, disturbing, and at time horrifying. The dialogue is mostly good but there are some dodgy moments. The story shows how impressionable the human mind is and how we can be driven mad by the abuse and secrecy of others. The only part of the story that I don't like is the fact that there are a lot of unanswered questions.The acting is all around great. Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Hristos , and Anna Kalaitzidou perform well. Angeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni bring a pure sense of innocence to the screen. They both perform above standard and truly captivated me with their stellar performance.The pacing is mostly smooth and the runtime is perfect. The amount of nudity is not that bad and the amount of gore is minimal (I had heard that it was worse).Pros: Disturbing story, great acting, amazing performances by Angeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni, good runtime, and a good use of nudity and goreCons: Some dodgy dialogue, some slow pacing, and a lot of unanswered questionsOverall Rating: 8.1The only other foreign film I have seen besides this is The Hunt which I loved. I understand that ambiguity can be great, such as Inception and Memento, but I was really hoping for some answers to all the mystery.
eagandersongil
A cold film that is both hot, tense, shocking and disturbing, dazzling human nature in a sarcastic and absurd way, Yorgos Lanthimos' "Canine Tooth" is a driving lesson where technical and creative resources talk so much. To the point of making the viewer believe in the complete absurdity of the plot of the great Greek director's work. The script of the film seems simple, basic, and maybe even silly, telling the story of a father and a mother who raise their 3 children (already in their 25s), just inside the house, making them believe that the world outside Is dangerous and taught them the distorted concepts of the world, the script tells us this story, but what is in between the lines is much bigger, it is worth to emphasize that even with the one and a half hour of film, the family is very well developed to the Everything, and is not missing just a little individual development of each character. Yorgos shows us a bit about the deconstruction of human nature, even with the 3 young people learning distorted and disconnected concepts and values, nature is there, the ambition to explore, the natural development of sexuality, the search for subterfuges to achieve freedom Even at the expense of blood), even the sense of economy is present, for even without the 3 young people knowing what it is, a barter trade is born between them, and even aggressiveness and civil obedience are shown as inherently high To the human being, we can change its world, change the name of everything, create mythologies and limits, but gradually the human being is awakened from and born independently of society. The thing that most skips the eye on the technical part is the camera, the camera angles can be used to magnify a character, to vilify a character, to humanize a character, and so on. Here the angles do not start at all, they are cold, they do not seek character from anybody, they simply transmit the story to us in a completely impartial way, it seems sometimes as if we were seeing a house camera, like a big brother, with angles Badly positioned, and characters out of the corner, this is purposeful because the characters have no name, we have no sense of where the story goes, nor what made the family to do it or their childhood, nothing more fair than The filming is also cold and indifferent, because we, the viewers, have to complete these gaps, photography does not say much, even though it is always very clear, we do not use warm colors, we have a palette pulled to a blue, Besides, there is the good soundtrack, and the good assembly. The performances of this film are frighteningly cool and realistic, even with that half- robotic tone (which is a feature of the Yorgos films), the performances do not sound cheesy or over-exaggerated, they are exactly as they should be. Yorgos Lanthimos is an interesting guy, reminds me a lot of the dinamaquês Lars Von Trier, his style and his approach, Yorgos is a guy with very few films in his career, but already it is good to keep an eye on him. "Canine Tooth" is a film that has been involved in many controversies, but is cinematographically complete, even short, he says a lot, disguised as a psychological suspense.
