Film Response

After watching two films in class I'd have to say I'd rather watch Kestrel's Eye. Although Plague Dogs was animated and gave the animal's human life qualities, it was, at times, sad to watch. I love dogs and it was sad to watch the Snitter and Rowf go through some of the things they did. I feel kind of weird saying a cartoon made me sad, but I guess that is exactly what the creators of the film were going for when they made it. The film did it's job to evoke emotion and draw the viewer into the various hardships the dogs had to experience.

I thought the opening scene of the movie was extremely harsh, however, to look at the film from a more positive stance, it can be said that it accuartely depicted what some animals go through in labs or during different experiments. I thought it got a little slow at times when it kept showing the dogs being hunted by the humans. It was intersting to see the plot develop as word spread that the dogs were dangerous. Eventually, it seemed as if the creators of the film were overdoing the idea that the dogs were harmful. It was sad to see the way that the humans treated them along their journey. It definitely depicts humans as the "bad guys"; especially the workers in the lab who acted like they knew nothing about the experimentations.

It seemed as if other aspects of the film were created in order to evoke emotion as well. For example, the fox's death, Snitter's scarred head, and even the humans that died throughout the film were prominent parts of the film. Injury, death, and suffering are all topics that bring about a multitude of emotions, depending on the person they affect. As terrible as this sounds, it was not as sad to watch the hunters die as it was to watch the dogs suffer and be hunted by the humans. Like I said before, since the humans were portrayed as the "bad guys", it caused me not to feel as much emotion or sympathy towards them. Essentially, the dogs didn't do anything wrong yet they were the ones being tortured.