There is a small line between fiction and anthropology. While most fictional stories attempt to create characters that follow human nature in a normal way, some of them attempt to make actual statements on the human condition. The Greek flick Dogtooth is one of them. Going into this movie I knew nothing other than the basic premise of youth growing up completely cut off from the world. This has been done before, even comedically in that Brendan Frasier movie that nobody remembers so I don't even know why I am referencing it.
Dogtooth is about teenage siblings who grew up in a world created by their parents, where they can never leave the house, and never have. I won't say anything else about the plot because experiencing this flick fresh is the best way to watch. What I will say is that the world in which these kids create is one that could easily be created by any mind raised in the circumstances. The things they do are instinctual human things that we do, but the context is different.
I was also raised in a suburban town where having kids seems like a business. Dogtooth is a commentary on how some parents have kids for the sole reason of having something to control. Obviously the movie takes it to new levels, but you can't help but see the parallels of a father forcing his children into sports, or the mother trying to raise her daughter to have the exact same sexual values that she had.
Dogtooth may be tedious to some, and I wouldn't even call it a film to watch for entertainment (although I was very entertained, but I am pretty weird I guess), but it is definitely one that should be seen for people who like talking about the world around them as it has much to discuss.
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