White God

9/2/2015

> The day when the dogs stopped wagging their tails. This movie was a tricky one, because everyone cannot understand and everyone cannot enjoy it. In this modern world, the computer graphics are easily available to illude the audience, so who would still use the silly old practical trickery in a film making. Must have been the hard work to manage plenty of the dogs during the shooting. But I believe there are hardly any major CGI works other than the bluescreen works. If you get the movie, then that's fine, if not, you may get some ideas through this review. Before proceeding I just want to alert the readers the review might contain some spoilers which is not measured. The Hungary's entry for the last concluded Oscars. The movie talks about a girl Lili in her early teenage, aspiring

6/26/2026

White God opens with a teenage girl pedalling alone through an emptied-out Budapest while a couple of hundred stray dogs come pouring around the corner behind her, and the film refuses to tell you whether to feel thrilled or terrified. That refusal is the whole point. Kornel Mundruczo takes a small everyday cruelty, a father dumping his daughter's mixed-breed dog Hagen on the roadside to dodge a tax on mongrels, and grows it into a full revolt. Hagen passes through every layer of human failure: the street, the pound, a dogfighting pit, a trainer who beats the gentleness out of him on purpose. By the time he leads the pack back into the city to settle scores, you understand the rage even while you flinch from it. What makes it land is that almost none of this is computer trickery. Roughl