Isle of Dogs is an overlooked masterpiece

If you watch my videos, you've probably already realized that I love stop motions, probably my favorite form of animation. Animation is my favorite medium. Stop motion is my favorite form of animation and after watching Fantastic Mr Fox and doing a review on it. There were a lot of people yelling at me to check out Isle of Dogs, which was directed by the same guy who directed Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson, and since Fantastic Mr Fox was fantastic, I decided to trust his guys' judgment and give it a chance and, Oh. OMG it was good, OMG Isle of Dogs is a good movie, OMG it's safe to say that after watching this, Wes Anderson has definitely solidified himself at the top of the directors I love that I'm talking to . like Henry Selleck type Tim Burton.

I actually ended up watching this movie again because of all the subtlety and there's so many things you missed, so many little details, it's very well done and I guess that's to be expected from Wes Anderson. I did a A lot of his stuff is very detailed, you really have to pay attention to catch all the little nuances and I think the main reason I love Wes Anderson's work is that I've noticed that it's very good with no waste, no flash, everything has a purpose. and a meaning that comes down to the dialogue, the backdrop, the character, everything has a purpose and is so tightly knit together and well done that I can't even point out one scene that I loved more than the other because every frame is pure pleasure to the view. you could literally jump to any moment in the movie and take a screenshot and frame it and it's art and this probably sounds crazy coming from me, a big fan of Henry Selleck like Tim Burton studios, all those different things to say that this movie I can wholeheartedly say that it is the pinnacle of stop-motion animation.

I'm just saying so far, obviously, we have a movie coming out next year and don't forget Jordan Peel and the Henry Selleck movie coming out in October can. Don't wait but this movie is currently the pinnacle with an incredible cast, we are talking Brian Cranston Bill Murray Jeff Goldblum Tilda Swinton Edward Norton leaves Schreiber and I just want to mention that I also want to give a huge credit to the Asian cast. his voice acting was amazing despite the fact that he didn't actually understand what they were saying. He could understand the emotion through her. Now the story itself is very ridiculous in nature, kind of like Fantastic Mr Box.

It's really exaggerated for comedic effect. Obviously I feel like Wes Anderson has a very interesting brand of humor that I love, it's a very interesting thing. Some people love it, some hate it. Obviously I'm on the side that loves it, but Wes Anderson didn't add subtitles every time there were ones. Japanese was spoken in this movie, it was actually warned at the beginning of the movie, now what you chose to do instead of using subtitles is have a translator, someone to translate the machine, a foreign exchange student or you were just left in the dark and you have to pick up the pieces from the visual cues, which I think is great because every time something is translated it has a meaning, it has a purpose, it makes sense within the scene why it's translated and I'll be honest, I've been trying. a lot of time finding a movie that does something similar to this because I complain all the time about the lazy writing where every different ethnic person always ends up speaking English in one way or another.

I feel like it's less immersive when a movie has all one type of character when someone who obviously wouldn't speak English just speaks English because it's lazy writing and easier to do, but Wes Anderson was saintly and honest. I feel that many people should learn from this example. You don't necessarily need subtitles. and this is proof that there are many different creative ways to translate different languages ​​instead of just putting text on a screen and even in the scenes where there is no translation, I completely understood what was going on because of all the visual cues and Honestly, I feel like that's what I wanted in the scenes where you don't understand, it forces you to use your eyes a little more and really pay attention to the details of the scene and try to pick up the visual language instead of the spoken language. language I don't know of any other movie that has done this so well.

I mean, there are probably movies that have done this, but this way, I don't know if there is a movie that does this that I'm not aware of, please let us. Let it be known in the comments below because I love this, I love this, there are a lot of times in this movie that is translated through a new screen and speeches from similar political figures that are translated through television and I like that because it really feels. As if you were a bystander in this situation, for example, you would be an American person watching the news unfold about something that is happening abroad.

It's a great way to do it and I'm not going to try to take all the social comments. oh, this means this, this means this because I personally don't think Wes Anderson is trying to put symbolic political messages behind all of this in this movie. I really feel like it's just a caricature of what politics is like, but it also shows the power. of the media and how things are portrayed to people who don't really know what's going on and you know bad translations and all that different stuff and I would also like to mention that this is definitely not a children's movie for many reasons that I don't they shy away from Death in this movie I want to be fair, there is only one death in this movie, but it provokes the idea of ​​death throughout the entire movie, where you really feel that someone can die at any moment and, above all, this movie shows how good

dogs

are.

I mean, I guess you could really call this an artistic version of cats vs.

dogs

, now cats don't necessarily do anything, they just exist and the people there just love cats and end up hating dogs because of a lie that Basically, there's a person in power who loves cats, hates dogs, wants to get rid of dogs in his basic situation, but we'll get deeper into the story once I talk a little bit about the pictures, real quick, you know. , let's just take some screenshots. of this movie and just open them real quick, let me see this movie is beautiful, each background is very complex and sometimes they are only used for one scene, everything has that West Anderson vibe because I feel like his style is formed around one. focal point and you get caught up in the huge backdrop behind it, the color is literally just massaging your eyes and one of the most visually stunning moments in this movie, without exaggeration, is when they make sushi, yes, seriously , I could watch this scene for hours, it's so satisfying and fun to watch and like I said before everything has a purpose, there is no decoration if that's what you want to call it, it's almost like a minimalist style but it's not really minimalist because a lot of things happen, but everything has a meaning and there is also so much Japanese culture in this movie that it has no qualms about being set in Japan, everything in this is very well set in Japanese culture, it takes place in a type city futurist known as megasaki, which I'm not.

I'm pretty sure if that has a reference to Nagasaki or not, but there is absolutely no Americanization of this movie. I guess you could call it that, it's like they took a lot of creativity from older Japanese films and brought it to life, so I'm already pretty excited. About the damn pictures, let's move on to what the story is, what the plot is. By the way, I know major spoilers. Obviously, I'm going over the entire movie, though, when I say that the plot really feels like second in line when it comes to this movie. The plot is pretty basic, it's pretty simple with a generic ending, but it's more about how the plot is presented, how the dialogue is set up, how the seams are set up, how you have to pay attention to the details or you could honestly get lost. something.

If you watch this entire video and then watch the movie, you're not going to be spoiled too much because it's very visually fascinating, so the introduction starts with the dog story that I narrated by a dog called basically How the Story Goes. his kind of dog we roamed free until a cat lover The Kobayashi dynasty declared war on dogs, this is what he was talking about, like the ridiculous nature of Wes Anderson's stories and before slaughtering every dog, he appeared a boy warrior and decapitated the head of the head of the Kobayashi clan and after this, the defeated dogs became helpless household pets, however, the Kobayashi clan never spared the dogs.

Fast forward to the future, 20 years later we are now in megasaki and it is run by a cat loving tyrant known as Kenji Kobayashi. is running for reelection and the way he plans to win is to eradicate the rabid spread of a disease called muzzle fever that only affects dogs and Kobayashi fears it will cross the species threshold and affect humans, classic propaganda and political alarmism. To gain the public's favor, Kobayashi lowered the banishment of all the dogs to an island known as Garbage Island, which is literally lit like an island full of garbage, but they end up referring to this as Dog Island and Something I Want. mention.

If you play around with the pronunciation of Isle of Dogs, it comes close to I Love Dogs. I mean, it sounds like a nice little Wes Anderson, but Kobayashi did this to quarantine the disease and eventually kill it. the species of dog and as a dog lover all my friends hate Kobayashi, the majority of the population agrees with the Isle of Dogs because everyone thinks that this is a dangerous disease that will affect us at some point, but there is a small portion of people. that they don't want the dogs to leave and that is led by Professor Watanabe, a scientist who believes that he is able to create a cure for this and we shouldn't take such drastic measures, but I want to pause for a second and admire the different shapes.

They translate this into a single scene some people might say they don't know that not having subtitles will be a bad decision but the different ways they implement this are so good ranging from narration on a screen translator in front of them showing the words in English even a translator. Within the translation of the film for the media there is also a back and forth perspective of showing the audience that you see them in their real seats and then you go to the translator and there is a TV behind her with a 2D animated version of the audience as if everything were like that. well thought out and as an introduction to his decree he uses the Kobayashi house dog as his first dog to be deported to the garbage island or better known as the Dog Island and after this happens we move to six months later and we see the huge increase in dog cages on the island and have our first introduction to the brutal world of the Isle of Dogs.

We see two groups of dogs fighting over some scraps with a little comedic intro of them trying to decide if it's worth fighting or not. finished and I just want to mention that Wes Anderson's fight scenes are always fun because it's just a fight. He takes inspiration from older cartoons where they have like a cloud where they're fighting and it's like a big mesh of body parts flying everywhere and that's pretty much how every fight plays out in the movie and it's always hilarious as well. that we have an introduction to the main cast of the show.

We have five dogs that are like the alpha dogs of the area as the dogs start to remember how their previous life was great and one even started to consider suicide. I really don't know how Wes Anderson can make something like that so comedic, but the way the dialogue was delivered makes me laugh every time. Well, we have Rex King Duke, boss and Boss and boss, turns out he's the only one. one of the group who is lost, but he is also the leader of the group because he is the toughest in a way and his journey begins every time they see a boy crash land on garbage island, they all refer to him as the little one pilot because they can't understand him because he speaks Japanese and the dogs speak English, okay, I know, I know, at the beginning of the movie I talked about how I don't like it when they translate different languages, he's a dog, okay, shut up, that's not .

Don't tell it, the dogs speak English, okay, but anyway the kid says he's looking for the places of his lost dog and ends up pulling a metal pipe out of his head and then passes out. We then cut to a megasaki news report as the translator tells. He tells us all about a missing 12 year old Atari boy who turns out to be the mayor's prize and we get a little history lesson on who Atari is to the mayor as he was a boy who lost his parents in a tragic car accident. bullet train and his uncle is Mayor Kobayashi, who adopted him to be his ward and after this tragic incident he was assigned a bodyguard dog who was named Spots, however, the nine-foot nightmare isMajor Domo, Major Kobayashi's right-hand man. he tells the boy that he's not a pet, he's just a guard dog that's there to protect you, so both Atari and Spots were given little headphones so they could communicate with each other and obviously they both end up loving each other. secretly, which is why he is on the island to find his dog place, who, if you remember from before, was the first dog sent to that island, so the next scene is what he was talking about before he didn't there's translation and it's just eye candy, but even though you can't understand anything they're saying, you can completely understand what's really happening in this scene because it's really just being communicated through the visuals of this scene, we see them in the lab and they're playing with a bunch of different chemicals, a bunch of different machines and at the end they do a little bit of clapping, so basically, long story short, they found a cure and it's great, so now we go back to the dogs and we find that points died of hunger in this sacred cage.

So the next sequence shows how the Chief sees himself as the Lone Wolf or, you know, at least he puts up walls around people because he doesn't want anyone to get close to him. Since he's a stray, he really tries to keep up the façade of being really tough. dog who doesn't want anyone around him and they have a little montage of shots where in every scene shown, the four dogs are hanging out with Atari and then the camera pans to see that the Chief is alone, but of all Anyway, after a while, the dogs helped Atari fix his plane and get it back up and running, but as Atari was leaving, they discovered that they were not blobs but a dog called sport.

Instead, the RT was smeared with stuff, but anyway back to the professor. he ends up presenting his cure to the mayor and obviously the mayor just wipes his butt with it and then throws it in the fire and then we get some nice buns from Kobayashi and now back to the island apparently Kobayashi sent a task force with a robotic dog to wipe out the dogs and save Atari from the dogs, but they were actually able to fight this group, this task force and this led to the mayor using this as ammunition to Fear Monger for more people and saying that his son actually was kidnapped by these dogs so they all have a little conversation and agree, besides the Chief, to go find Jupiter at the Oracle, apparently they are the only ones who have been there for quite a while and can tell them where the places would be and back to megasaki us Meet the group of protesters against the Dog Island situation Isle of Dog and Tracy Walker, a foreign exchange student, believes there is a conspiracy.

She believes that Mayor Kobayashi created this dog flu in the first place to get rid of the dogs and increase their numbers. polls and honestly I love this character, she's like the classic example of someone who believes in her cause and will do anything to further it and ends up becoming the leader of the group after everyone agrees with her theory and her plans . to find a way to prove it, so back on the island they are on their journey to go find Jupiter at the Oracle and we have a nice montage of amazing backgrounds that have a bit of history, we have factories, houses, cities destroyed by natural disasters, so you can see that this used to be a habitable place that became a natural disaster area with a lot of garbage and then this is where we get a little bit of the Chief's backstory as all the dogs are They start talking about their favorite foods and then the Boss reveals that he actually wasn't always stray, he was adopted once, but he accidentally almost bit a kid's hand because a kid was just trying to pet him, he just did it on reflex and throughout the movie he says I bite but I don't know why I bite, I'm not sure this movie is about dogs but I feel like the Boss part is very human and relates to a lot of people.

A classic case of extreme trust issues brought on by past trauma at any time. someone wants to show warmth or try to help someone, they just put up walls and act aggressively because they don't want to let anyone in, that's why they're so secretive and cold to everyone, it's putting up that tough facade, you know, putting up those walls to keep them away. to people for fear that someone would approach him. Now we have a little clarification on the mayor's true plans, as they have a meeting to congratulate some people. I guess this is like the important roundtable. people where he's like good job creating the dog flu, good job sending them to the island, good job creating a robot dog to wipe out all the other dogs and also the Yakuza to eliminate the professional dog opposition with bribery, extortion, intimidation and violent force now.

That's a classic political campaign. If you ask me now, the young masters of Megasaki are that protest group that Tracy is the leader of and they have the Atari black box in their hands if you don't know what a black box is. is basically the box on a plane that carries all the radio images of the plane, basically every time there is an accident the black box records what happened, so now we meet Jupiter and the Oracle, which is called the Oracle because it is the only dog ​​on the island that actually understands human television and they tell them to go to the farthest part of the island to find places and then comes the sushi scene um oh I'm never going to get over this scene.

I've seen this scene several times and I can't get over it and I actually missed this scene the first time. I pieced it together pretty quickly but I was too focused on the images and I missed the little text that was there because this scene was actually created by her. the sushi he was going to poison to poison Professor Watanabe and yes the professor ends up trying the poisoned wasabi and dies and this was all under the command of that nine foot demon god, this guy is terrifying and this is the portion of the movie in which the Boss is separated from the group along with Atari as the four dogs are sent through a crushing, compacting, and incinerating machine.

I honestly thought they just died like it was one of those situations where it's like their supporting characters are poofing. You're gone and I think it's a really good example of how throughout the movie you feel like death just happens, you feel like it's so imminent in every scene, even though it really only happens once, throughout the movie you feel like it can happen. happen at any moment, this is where the Boss's walls start to break down as he starts to get a little closer to Atari. Atari even gets the Boss to go get a stick and also gives him a bath and this is where we find out that the Boss is actually missing.

A black dog is actually white with black spots similar to the spots on the Atari dog, which is who you are going to find. The only thing that differs from them is that it has a dark nose and the spots have a pink nose and little by little you start Let's see the The boss really wants to protect the boy over time and something else I want to mention that I love about Wes Anderson is how he portrays romantic scenes. He doesn't do all that cheesy, gushing, mushy stuff, it's like cut and dry, for example, there's this part. from the movie where the Chief met only a dog named Nutmeg and it wasn't really a flirtatious romance, it was more like two dogs talking and Nutmeg was more interested in whether or not he was going to plan to protect the boy, but you could.

When they leave, they say that the Boss was quite interested in nutmeg, but he didn't express it in a very embarrassing way. I guess you could also say when Tracy admits that she's in love with Atari, when she was formulating her plan to save Atari, it was just blunt, she just says, "Damn, I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you, there's no one." long dialogue, it's not like an internal dilemma, it's totally direct, ah anyway, moving towards Chief Atari and the other four dogs that miraculously made." made it out alive, he surrounded himself by a group of people meant to kill them, they formed a much larger task force to save Atario, I mean save Atari, however, Atari starts receiving a signal on his earpiece that he received to contact points and it went off in the At a distance they do see spots and this is where we get the backstory of what happened to him when he arrived on the island.

He was trapped in the cage for a long time until a group of dogs he referred to as cannibal dogs took him to the farthest part of the island, which as I say many times, if you catch the visual cues, is actually a factory. with a bunch of dog cages and it was revealed that technically these dogs cannibalized their leader, but it was out of pure desperation and Even the new leader of the pack started crying when talking about it and if you look at every dog ​​there you see that they suffer some different type of ailment and it's not from the island itself, they actually have mechanical parts. and things, some have no limbs, others just look sick and almost like they've been experimented on with a wink, a wink, a fast forward until they're attacked.

Spots comes out and actually protects them all with these military grade teeth and was able to destroy the Bots and escape, and on the way to the facility it was revealed that Spots is actually the long lost brother of the Head of Nagasaki Center. You are a short-haired, oceanic spotted-eared sporting hound mix. You were born in a storm sewer on bamboo shoot holiday six. Years ago today, do you know me? Apparently cheap he was left as a stray dog ​​because he was the runt of the litter, something heavy very fast. Additionally, on Megasaki, Major Domo confirmed that Atari was killed by the dogs, further fueling hate propaganda. for all types of dogs and locations on the island he explains to everyone that this facility was created to experiment on dogs to create a specific flu.

I wonder what kind of flu they also found out that Kobayashi has plans to literally murder the rest of the dogs with the wasabi poison they used to murder Professor Watanabe, so the dogs come up with a plan to build rafts and return to megasaki and avoid for this to happen, and Tracy still continues her quest to expose the mayor and confront the assistant. the professor the professor who was murdered who everyone believes just died of strange causes and even gets his hand on the last bottle of the Snout Fever Cure with a little persuasion to get Tracy and her group of protesters up to the scene while the Mayor is giving his mayoral political speech and they try to expose Kobayashi and after saying everything they did no one believes them, Tracy even ends up losing her citizenship and will be sent back to Ohio, yeah hell and this mass dog genocide that is. about to start was placed on a big red hilarious button until Atari and the dogs who returned to megasaki from the island arrive before pressing the red button and silently go up to the stage while showing the cure vial to everyone and it is shown that they have a cure for muzzle fever and that Atari gives a speech to everyone explaining about the experiments on the island and how they created the dog flu and ends with what happened to man's best friend and even thanks his uncle Kobayashi . for bringing him in as a stray because she considers him close to the Boss because he was also a stray in a way, this must have spoken to his uncle because he ends up changing his mind when he realizes that all of this just isn't fair to the boy . or the dogs and abandons his campaign for mayor, however, Major Domo did not like that decision, as they end up getting into a cloud of fighting with the mayor in some places.

Bots ends up falling and Atari gets another piece of metal stuck in his head and the older Domo. somehow he was able to press the red button with his long, disgusting fingers, but something else so good that I just wanted you to find out when you see it yourselves, there was actually one of the members of the protest, the one who was considered the hacker that was hidden in the work group that was supposed to kill the dog and in fact hacked the system and got to where it backfired on the people and all the dogs were able to escape.

It was explained so well in the movie that just watch it in the background of a scene where you see the task force or see him giving a sly look while he is in a line of the task force. You see him infiltrate the task force throughout the film and little snippets with visual cues. instead of saying Oh yeah, he's sneaking in there, but in that fight, since Atari ended up taking another metal tube to the head, he was sent to the hospital and after the surgery it was revealed to be a success, but he lost his another kidney and he only had one kidney because he lost the other one in the train accident and in a miraculous twist Atari's uncle beats Mayor Kobayashi to it and asked them to remove his kidney to save him.

I'm sorry and they even have a damn kidney transplant scene that looks really real and when I say real I mean it looks like what real surgery would be like. I mean, I haven't seen many kidney transplants, but from what I've seen it looks legit. I never thoughtI would say a kidney transplant. He would seem satisfactory, but in the end he is. Mayor Kobayashi was convicted of this terrible crime against the creation of the canine flu. Atari by default ended up becoming the mayor of the city. He ended up dating Tracy and not only that, but Spots survived and became the boss. new Atari watchdog even with military grade teeth and the ending is pretty funny as the whole protest group turns into that Round Table of important people and they have a little meeting at the end trying to come up with some kind of round table. punishment for someone who ever does something bad to a dog and a person says the death penalty and nothing less and I agree, I agree, but they settle for a big fine if they ever end up hurting a dog and then the Boss obviously ends up nutmeg at the end, such a good ending to a good movie.

I highly recommend everyone to watch this one if you haven't seen it, go watch it even if you see all this and feel like she's spoiled, watch it anyway believe me. It's a good watch, you don't even have to worry about the story for it to have entertainment value. I feel like everyone deserves to have this visual orgasm at least once in their life and if you want to talk to me more about this. movie, you can find me on bionicpig live. I'm probably streaming as this video goes up and thanks again for watching, like and subscribe, like and subscribe, right shadow, like and subscribe, like okay, he doesn't care about you, bye.