A Boy and His Dog Update!

As I stated in my first post, I was totally shocked as I watched this film. First off, the viewer is thrown straight into the plot, it's not hard to figure out what has happened, some sort of apocalypse. The first big surprise occurs when the dog starts talking to Vic. After you've finally settled with the idea that the dog talks, he sniffs out a girl that Vic then rapes. At this point I'm was just trying to figure out what was going on, the girl seemed to take the whole "rape" thing pretty well..a little too well. This is when I turned the bullshit meter up on the girl, something wasn't right. So, back to the plot, the girl mentions "the underground" where she lives, and that she wants Vic to come back there with her. Vic leaves Blood, the dog, behind and follows the girl. Vic discovers this underground society, the rules are very strict and everyone has white face paint with big red dots on their cheeks. Vic is captured by several of these odd clown faces and has his semen pumped from him to impregnate the society's stagnant gene pool, a result of being underground. The plan is to kill him after the deed is done, but the girl he raped in the beginning comes back for him and asks him to kill the "Council" so she can be the leader. Vic tells her to go to hell, and she pretends she loves him so she can leave with him because she knows she screwed with her society anyway. Now for my favorite part...Vic returns to the surface where a sick and wounded Blood is waiting...Vic and Blood roast the girl over a fire and eat her...Complete and total shock...

Objectified Response

This was an interesting film, very well done. There were a lot of ideas presented that I'd never thought of before. The idea that what you own and how to use and change it is for an audience, and that audience is yourself, because in reality, no one really cares. I also really liked the bit about design that gets better with age, there are a few products that get better the longer they are used, it's very interesting to think that someone designed a product that way. Lastly, it's interesting to learn that most designers actually design a prototype, and then remove the unnecessary parts until what is left is the final product, sort of the opposite of how one might think it would work.

A Boy and His Dog Response

All I can say is wow...The film begins with almost no information, the viewer is just thrown straight into the film. This was not a very good film in my personal opinion. Blood was a great character, I really enjoyed his part, Vic was a little too "I do whatever I want" for me. The girl, who's name I have no idea how to spell, is just straight crazy, doing whatever she can for herself, stepping on whoever she has to to get ahead. The end...wow, talk about a twist. A little too out there. The movie went from lonely kid and his dog finding women and raping them, to a creepy semen pumping underground society, and finally cannibalism. Wow.

Blade Runner Scene Analysis

I really enjoyed the ending scene, with Roy and Rick battling it out. The juxtaposition of the two is so interesting, the ending scene really shows some similarities. The scene also shows who Roy really is, we also get a sense for the kind of guy Rick is in the following scene. I enjoyed the movie as a whole, the setting especially, it fit so well with Rick's 'bad cop' character. The film reminded me a lot of "The Spirit,"a movie about a superhero protecting his tired city, while struggling with how he or his enemies came to be. Rick struggles with the identities of the androids, and to a certain level, a struggle with who he is himself. That's why I enjoyed the ending scene so much, it sort of ties loose ends together, the unicorn is a very nice touch by the director, sort of a "spinning totem" (an allusion to Inception) right at the end to make the viewer really question what they're thinking.