Valery Varul suggested to me this philosophical film. It's a damn focused movie. In some places, a meditative picture that includes universal and social issues and supervises social problems. :
The film is the winner in Cannes of the Special Look Section and the Mirror Festival in Ivanovo. The most important thing is that the director Guan Hu (author of the acclaimed “Eight hundred” in 2020) turned out. There is no sloppy sentimentality and ode to dog loyalty. The vector is a strictly realistic picture, shot in the spirit of existential and social dramas Jia Zhangke, superimposed neatly on the very sad comedies of Buster Keaton. And there is a comparison, when the post-apocalyptic “Guy and his dogs” goes hand in hand with the perestroika masterpiece “Friend”.
"Black Dog" is a laconic misanthrope film, Guan Hu has a picture of communism (I and my homeland), there are no parallels here, but there is a hidden meaning of loneliness, and a picture of outcasts like "Black ..." - "Mr. Six."
For my personal taste, here is a great allusion to Gogol – Dead Souls, the same loneliness and harsh childhood:
Chichikov was thinking. Something strange, some hitherto unknown, unknown feelings, inexplicable to him, came to him: as if he wanted something to wake up in him, something suppressed from childhood by harsh, dead instruction, the unwelcomeness of a boring childhood, the desolation of his native home, familyless loneliness, poverty and poverty of initial impressions, a harsh glance of fate that looked at him boringly, through some vaguely blizzarded winter window.
Gogol N.V., Dead Souls, 1835
Black Dog is a great movie that falls in an era of cataclysms – social, spiritual, economic and cultural. There's a big metaphor. It's read many times. Watch a movie. It requires attention. I recommend it. :