Introduction: Turn them into friends.
In many human and dog genre films, most of them are based on showing the loyalty of dogs to humans and the emotional relationship between them and human beings, such as "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog" and "The Mission of a Dog" have shined in Western countries, and many tear-jerking bridges have been staged on the screen with the emotions between dogs and humans, and many audiences have loved it. The feature film "White God" directed by Kenel Mudluzzo is just the opposite, the film tells the story of Hagen, a hybrid dog abandoned by the owner Lily's father, after becoming a stray dog, after experiencing and witnessing various harms to his species, hundreds of stray dogs have gathered hundreds of stray dogs to "kill" humans, and Lily, who has lost Hagen, has gradually resolved the conflict between her father in the process of constantly looking for a dog.
The phrase "animals are human friends" does not seem to appear in the film, but instead shows that they are abandoned, persecuted and reprimanded as tools for making money for humans on the dog fighting grounds, and the reasons behind this are the discrimination of species, the innate desire of human beings and their status as the rulers of the world, naturally believing that they can impose control on other species, thus causing the tragedy of the canines in the film to kill humans Another problem is that pets are abandoned in many countries and they become stray animals. From the perspective of stray dogs, the director reveals the contradiction between humans and abandoned animals to the audience in a delusional way, whether it is discrimination or abandonment, the problem is infinitely magnified, which for animals, although they have no ability to express language, but the harm caused to them is fatal, and for humans, it is a problem worth reflecting on.
Perhaps it is precisely because there is no equal way between humans and animals that the contradictory relationship between species has staged many tragedies. From the subject matter of the film, it is an allusion to the contradictions between species that exist in society, and the film ends with Lily retrieving and smoothing Hagen's scars, and the director tries to find a balanced relationship between humans and animals and sees it as a purpose that can achieve reconciliation.
The film begins with two story lines, one is Hagen's abandonment and step by step into a grumpy "vicious dog", the tragic experiences of living outside with other stray dogs, and the other hidden clue is the emotional change between Lily and her father in the process of finding the lost Hagen. The director devotes a lot of space to the film to construct how Hagen was persecuted by humans by a docile domestic dog and finally attacked people, without dabbling in too many emotional factors, compared to the characters, it is obvious that in the director's mind is to put his emotions and sympathy more on animals. Throughout the film, the uncomplicated characterization and the weakening of emotions make the audience pay more attention to the animals. Nevertheless, it is also Hagen's process from being discarded to returning, which makes Lily's process from rebellion and disgust for her father to abandoning her dog to searching for Hagen at all costs, achieving the piercing of the gap between her father and her father, and finally reaching the return of the feelings between father and daughter. Although the director does not have a large amount of ink to express the emotional relationship between the characters, even the faint light revealed in the dark street corners that appear many times in the film is enough to express the emotions of the whole film to the fullest, and the moment when the father puts down the musket and lies on the ground with his daughter is also the finishing touch of the whole film' emotions.
In addition, most of the film is realistic shooting from the perspective of the stray dog Hagen, at first for Hagen, the owner Lily is like a "God" existence to accompany Hagen, as the story develops, after encountering the obstacles of Lily's father, Hagen became a stray dog, the film uses Hagen's subjective perspective in a large way, at this time Hagen is like "God", it examines the various viciousness and cruelty that humans carry out on them, whether it is the owner of the wet market, the dog dealer, the black market dog fighter or the animal adopter, In the world Hagen saw, it was the selfishness of these people who changed them from meek and peaceful personalities to rage and regarded them as "enemies", which ultimately led to the tragedy of the dog's injury. In the process of such a tragic story, there are also deeper social problems of the director, which are also worth pondering for audiences outside the screen.
In the social context at that time, the strict policy implemented by the Hungarian government to pay taxes on dog-owning families, as seen in the film, Hagen, as a hybrid breed, whether it is Lily's father or landlord, naturally has a dislike of discrimination, on the one hand, this is caused by the social environment, and on the other hand, it is the innate discrimination and control of other species in human beings. The image of stray dogs created in the film is more like an allusion to the displaced residents and vulnerable groups in the life of Western society at that time, precisely because they have no pure blood in the local area and have been abandoned by society, such a group often embarks on the dark road of "violence" after encountering too much social oppression. Indeed, in this real life, there is racial and class discrimination that cannot be ignored, and the director extends such social reality to the relationship between humans and animals, and also allows the audience to see the ugly side of human nature.
In addition, although it is a thriller film of Western European countries, the film is obviously full of the literary and artistic temperament of Western European countries. The trumpet that the girl Lily blew many times not only added color to the literary atmosphere of the film but also paved the way for the ending, and the same song also played a different role in the film. When Lily first played the trumpet to soothe hagen's uneasy heart, who was locked up in the bathroom by her father; the second time hagen, who was hidden in the corner of the classroom during the playing class, heard the trumpet and ran out, deepening Lily's father's dislike of Hagen and discarding it; the third time was Hagen's song played on the TV when he witnessed the euthanasia of his kind in the stray animal shelter; and the last time was in the face of the tyrannical and murderous Hagen and hundreds of "vicious dogs", Lily played the trumpet again. At this time, the familiar melody once again soothed Hagen's jealous and hateful heart. If Hagen is the leader of this "man-dog war", then this song is like a military order carefully designed by the director, and the final sound of the military order horn is Hagen's master Lily, as the only person in the film who cares for the dog is the leader who finally quells this furious war.
The film ends with a happy ending, where the father accepts Hagen and understands his daughter's world. Hagen's animalistic nature, inspired by self-protection and helplessness, eventually returned to calm under the influence of human beings. "White God" not only maps the story of man and dog to the problems faced by people in real life, but also is a film that deserves reference and reflection on the relationship between people and animals. In the animal world, they see people as their "gods" and beliefs, but human beings should uphold their responsibility to love them, and should not let them lose themselves.