Dogtooth (Greek, DVD)

Reviews

"A most odd film about a most odd family." by Michael S. - 11 May 2015

I'm surprised it ever got an Oscar nomination, as this is a strange film, reminiscent of Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent. Rather more sexually explicit than wou might expect. The premise is unlikely, though it raises interesting questions : if parents completely isolated their children, so that the kids had no external source of information or validation, how could they develop any other world view but that which was fed to them ? In the larger context, it makes one think about how governments may control information received by citizens, and whether that, too, might warp one's world-view and one's ability to cope with the real world.