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The Wild Dogs (2002)

The Wild Dogs (2002)

GENRESDrama
LANGEnglish
ACTOR
Rachel BlanchardVisinel BurceaMihai CalotaSilvian Duica
DIRECTOR
Thom Fitzgerald

SYNOPSICS

The Wild Dogs (2002) is a English movie. Thom Fitzgerald has directed this movie. Rachel Blanchard,Visinel Burcea,Mihai Calota,Silvian Duica are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2002. The Wild Dogs (2002) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.

Set during the cull of the stray dogs in the city of Bucharest, The Wild Dogs weaves together a week in the lives of several citizens of and visitors to the hauntingly beautiful city. Geordie, a visiting Canadian pornographer, Bogdan, a reluctant city dog-catcher, and Natalie, a lonely Diplomat's wife - each risks losing everything as they become embroiled in the struggles of Bucharest's abandoned children, gypsies, dogs and beggars.

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  • Thom Fitzgerald Switches Gears

    Chlotrudis2002-09-27

    In a stunning turn from his previous films, the director of the magnificent THE HANGING GARDEN plunges himself into the ethical morass of the sex trade and poverty of Bucharest, Romania. In a remarkably successful bit of casting, Fitzgerald himself plays a pornographer sent to Romania to exploit the young, inexpensive female labor there. Upon his arrival he befriends an equally corrupt Canadian diplomat, as well as several of the poor and outcast of Bucharest society. Fitzgerald skillfully ties this lives of the poor outcasts with the hundreds of wild dogs that roam the city, and a young man with a temperament ill-suited for his job of catching them for disposal. And with his character, Fitzgerald creates a morally ambiguous man who keeps surprising the viewer in this powerful and wonderfully made film.

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  • Between Canada and Romania

    claudita_9932005-10-08

    It is not easy to watch a movie about Bucharest, after living for 5 years in Canada as an emigrant.Honestly, I have cried a lot. Why? I love my born country and I respect and appreciate my adopt country. I experienced,in my own way,all the suffer and changes happened with my country,with my people in communism time and after the communism fell. In this movie,Thom Fitgerald exposed a cruel reality not fictional at all as some of us could consider it.Therefore, I believe that many Romanians share a common trauma about the events which are happening now in our society.However,in the past,Bucharest was known as " little Paris ", nowadays even we could still discover beautiful things there, the ambiance is more and less as we can see in "Wild Dogs".For this reason,it is very hard for somebody from outside to discover and why not to show the discrepancy between horrible and unbelievable facts and the amazing spirituality, the deep philosophy of life, the great values which still exist in Bucharest-Romania, East Europe or other places around the world. On the other hand, I was so shocked to see again in this movie the phenomenal paradox regarding Bucharest' dogs during the end of 20th century and at the beginning of 21 century.I remember that I could not rest because of their barking in the middle of night,I was attacked by many of them during pregnancy,I was tired and desperate avoiding the shits,I was afraid to walk in a lot of spots where they behave like the animals in the wildness,I fed them and I played with their puppies, my daughter also had her canine friends or her canine enemies which bite her twice,it broke our heart when we saw them poisoned, etc.The conclusion is:I felt sorry for them and I despited them in the same time. In Bucharest case,both for human beings and animals has been created a desperate situation which is still waiting for a kind of miracle to solve it.It seems like slices from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels embodied into Bucharest world. Finally,this movie is a precious gift for me,I am very thankful to Thom Fitzgerald and his crew and I will recommend it to all of us who still have hope in humanity, who still have compassion, sensibility and the belief that all the living things are the children of only one mother, the Earth ;also I will recommend to all my compatriots who are living in diaspora and who could see again our capital tortured in an absurd an chaotic way even in a new century.

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  • Absolutely unforgettable. Thom Fitzgerald is exceptional.

    barrywood2005-08-16

    This movie is filmed in Romania. The brilliant director/writer, Thom Fitzgerald, takes you on a journey that is shocking, raw, and honest. Emotions are beautiful and raw. I was thinking throughout the movie how little control we really do have over our own lives. The characters sort of creates themselves. Sometimes I was so angry that I felt like throwing up but then suddenly I would see something that was extremely tender and funny. Fitzgerald controls the viewer as though he has a whip: he knows how to use it, but he also knows when to lie it down. The camera shoots are exceptional as well. Watch the movie the second time and take in all the background, the shading, the movements, the actors. I've never seen a movie like The Wild Dogs. I really can't remember seeing a movie that has made me so angry at some characters but then so happy with other characters. I don't know how Fitzgerald did it, but he has created a masterpiece. Watch the movie for what it is: not what you think it should be because I think most people would find the subject matter totally haunting. This movie is not for the faint of heart. I rate this movie a 10 out of 10.

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  • Good shock value does not make a good film

    sparkmedia2005-10-25

    While I give credit to the filmmaker for completing such a film in what must have been difficult circumstances (political, not emotional), I would expect a film like this from adventurous student filmmakers. This is by no means a great film, both technically and dramatically. While it is always good shock value to show desperate conditions, there must also be good story, good acting and good craft to make a good film (for example, Schindler's List). This film has none of those. The NTSC DVD that I watched was of the poorest production values, with behind the scenes footage that is embarrassing. What I find more interesting than the film is the dynamics of the comments found here on IMDb. From overwhelming praise to outright denial of the circumstances portrayed in the film. If the film got one thing right, it is portraying the atmosphere of the streets of Bucharest. The thousands (Yes, there are thousands of them) of stray dogs and the Gypsies do exist. However, it is a fact of life in Romania and not considered to be a major problem by locals who grew up and lived in these conditions all their lives. Nor is it anymore difficult to deal with as a tourist than the pick pockets I found in Rome, or the homeless I find in Los Angeles. Whenever I read a comment that is overwhelmingly good or bad, I discredit the whole comment as biased. I hope others do the same as well.

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  • Powerful piece of work.

    mrchaos332003-06-22

    This film's title refers to the dogs that were left homeless in Bucharest, Romania when dictator Ceausescu decided to level the city and rebuild it in his vision. After years of unchecked breeding, these stray dogs number in the thousands. Director Thom Fitzgerald (The Hanging Garden) uses scenes of the dogs snarling and fighting as a metaphor for human behaviour. It's a bit heavy handed perhaps, but given the setting and nature of the story it seems appropriate enough. Fitzgerald weaves several plot lines together - an ineffectual dog-catcher (Mihai Calota) fears he will lose his job; a decadent ambassador (David Hayman) takes advantage of his position of power, while his pampered wife (Alberta Watson) begins to understand the crushing poverty that exists all around her and a pornographer (Fitzgerald) comes to town to search for inexpensive models to photograph. It's a complex narrative, and Fitzgerald almost manages to bring it all together. There is a feeling that shards of the story are left dangling and the themes of redemption that are sprinkled throughout seem a bit too tidy, but by an large it works. My main complaint is the casting of Fitzgerald in the lead role of the pornographer. He simply isn't a strong enough actor to convey the emotional arc that his character goes through. For the movie to work we must believe that this is a man who could make his living taking naked pictures of underage girls, and could then realize the evil of his ways and change into a decent guy. Fitzgerald simply never convinced me that there was a transformation happening internally - his performance is all surface. I found myself wondering what a more accomplished actor might do with this role. Don McKellar or Tom McCamus could have pulled this off, but I would have liked to seen Callum Keith Rennie take on the part. He has the toughness to make us believe he could be involved in something unsavoury and the acting chops show us the character's salvation. The Wild Dogs is still a powerful piece of work, just not as affecting as it could be.

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