"Dog" is a British 10-minute film from 2001, so this had its 15th anniversary last year and it was written and directed by (then not yet) Oscar winner Andrea Arnold. It's from the days when she made many short films, but still way past her very early television days. This one we got here is really not good in my opinion, perhaps the filmmaker's weakest career effort. Violence is fine, but it must make sense in the overall picture. The fact that a girl concentrates on a dog and laughs at it while making out with her boyfriend is not justification enough for what happens afterward. Yes he does seem like somebody carrying a lot of anger and frustration inside him, but it still did not convince me at all in terms of story-telling and after that, the epilogue with the girl barking at her mother was really just the tip of the negative iceberg. Extremely disappointing film we got here, I'm glad it was that short. All for the sake of shocking audiences, no substance no real depth. Don't watch.
Review of Dog
