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Dear Today Show,
Not every movie requires a talking animal to explain the plot to you. The offending words, copy-pasted here because NBC is a bunch of twats:
5. 'Dogtooth' for Best Foreign Language Film.
Last year's Foreign Language winner, "The Secret in Their Eyes," was so conventionally commercial that it's already being remade by Hollywood. The pendulum seems to have swung all the way back in the other direction this time, as "Dogtooth" is the sort of nasty arthouse extreme which appeals to film snobs and nobody else.
An apparent satire in which a Greek couple have kept their teenage children imprisoned at home all their lives, teaching them blatant lies about the meanings of words and life, it features the brutal killing of a cat, and graphic self-dentistry. What it doesn't feature? Explanation, resolution, or Oscar-worthy craft.
Don't listen to this crap. Movie was awesome and it's not an arthouse movie for film snobs. It's just fucking weird and awesome.
Not every movie requires a talking animal to explain the plot to you. The offending words, copy-pasted here because NBC is a bunch of twats:
5. 'Dogtooth' for Best Foreign Language Film.
Last year's Foreign Language winner, "The Secret in Their Eyes," was so conventionally commercial that it's already being remade by Hollywood. The pendulum seems to have swung all the way back in the other direction this time, as "Dogtooth" is the sort of nasty arthouse extreme which appeals to film snobs and nobody else.
An apparent satire in which a Greek couple have kept their teenage children imprisoned at home all their lives, teaching them blatant lies about the meanings of words and life, it features the brutal killing of a cat, and graphic self-dentistry. What it doesn't feature? Explanation, resolution, or Oscar-worthy craft.
Don't listen to this crap. Movie was awesome and it's not an arthouse movie for film snobs. It's just fucking weird and awesome.