Daddy Issues in ".dog"
31st March, 2022 at 5:49PM
Dimitris (Dimitris Kitsos, convincing in his character's innocence) hopes that once his father (Andreas Konstantinou, expressing repulsive primitivism) is released from prison, he will finally have a family. He nervously chases this hope and becomes utterly frustrated upon realising that his father has in fact been out for several months but did not care to look for him. When the two of them inevitably reunite, their developing relationship turns out to be abusive rather than supporting - behind his paternal urge to "educate" his son and catch up on lost time, the father is actually exploiting his son by trying to involve him as an "apprentice" in his suspicious affairs on the Turkish side of Nicosia, while failing his real apprenticeship in a car repair garage, whose owner's family want to adopt Dimitris. In treating his son no better than the numerous dogs he is surrounded by and, more importantly, in failing to defend himself as a moral parental figure who deserves respect, the father gradually loses his son's blind trust, provoking a logical outcome — the son finds himself forced to sanction his father's sense of impunity and uncastrated instincts.Watch this coming-of-age film at Unseen Nairobi. Get Tickets at KenyaBuzz.
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