Dogs that bark do not bite
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dogs that bark do not bite |
| Original title | 플란다스 의 개 (Flandersui gae) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bong Joon-ho |
| script | Bong Joon-ho |
| production | Cho Min-hwan |
| music | Jo Sung-woo |
| camera |
Cho Yong-kyou Jo Yeong-gyu |
| cut | Lee Eun-soo |
| occupation | |
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Dogs That Bark Don't Bite is a comedy by the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho from 2000. The original title Flanders-ui gae is the Korean title for the novel A Dog of Flanders by Ouida and is a satirical allusion.
action
Yoon-ju ( Lee Sung-jae ) is an unemployed professor who is at home under the slipper of his hard-working and heavily pregnant wife. The couple live in a uniform, modern high-rise apartment building on the outskirts of Seoul. In addition to his personal problems, there is a dog barking incessantly in the neighborhood, which almost drives him crazy. He decides to kidnap the yapper and make him disappear. In the end, since he doesn't have the heart to kill the dog, he locks it in a closet in the basement. Later he finds out through a search poster that the dog cannot bark, he has taken the wrong one. When he looks after him, the caretaker has already slaughtered him.
Later he is annoyed again, this time by a different dog. He kidnaps this too. The young Hyun Nam ( Bae Du-na ) also lives in the same residential complex. She works in a neighborhood office that, among other things, receives reports of missing dogs. Otherwise their life is quite empty and consists of smoking, drinking and spying on people with binoculars. She happened to see Yoon-ju with the dog on the roof of the neighboring house. At first he hesitates, then he throws him off the roof. From now on she would like to hunt down the perpetrator heroically and dreams of appearing on television thanks to her heroic act.
The two opponents, both failures in life, eventually become something like friends as the film progresses. Curiosities like a Korean dog soup, the terrible phantom “Boiler Kim” and 100 m of toilet paper enrich the plot. There are also some socially critical allusions, for example to bribes in the education system.
reception
The film Barking Dogs Never Bite became a cinematic breakthrough for the young actress Bae Doo-na (already known to Korean audiences from TV dramas). For the former short film director Bong Joon-ho, his first full-length film was also a success, which received a lot of positive feedback at international festivals.