The film focuses on his life as a single dad to a daughter (Ilona Huhta) – a fully realised character in her own right – with impressive realism, and moves onto his discovery of BDSM as a form of therapy, as guided by dominatrix Mona (Krista Kosonen). At moments, DDWP is truly shocking – there is one scene involving a tooth (and a moment involving a finger nail) that is rather gruelling (excellently so). We aren't especially known for good horror movies, haha.Mitä ihmettä eikö Lordin Dark Floors olekaan kauhuelokuvien mestariteos??
This is a film light on expository conversations, it instead relies on a clear and consistent visual language. It is a heartfelt and ultimately very beautiful film – but it is also incredibly twisted. This previously mentioned desire is destructive and it is want to push further and further that is his downfall.
I just watched ‘Dogs Don’t Wear Pants’ on Shudder. There are some really goofy moments though, mostly derived from a very well realised father-daughter relationship.
The exploration of loss, identity, self-destruction and belonging is very cogent – and intelligently sustained – but it’s not the most deep exploration. He does, in fact, find a sense of belonging and identity in the wider BDSM milieu. This is a bold and attractive film, one full of confidence. However, the bites the film does take are so audacious and interesting that you can forgive a lack of consistent depth.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Dogs Don't Wear Pants (Finnish: Koirat eivät käytä housuja) is a 2019 Finnish erotic black comedy film directed by J-P Valkeapää. It was one hell of a movie. All I can say is “wow”.
This is, after all, a thing that happens – a regular tragedy – and the film is interested in exploring loss and emptiness, making the wife’s death central to everything rather than just an inciting incident.
It is bold and truly compelling, giving you something different and outlandish while also managing to be incredibly sweet. The husband accidentally meets a dominatrix.
Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything. It is a film of real style – and of some substance – that manages to cleverly negotiate disparate tones while always feeling cohesive. Yes, it is using a woman as a disposable plot point for male character development but the film does transcend this – and does compelling things with this.
With Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ilona Huhta, Jani Volanen. The story followings a grieving husband who likes to be strangled. After one session with her, he wants more. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. On paper, it is an inconsistent character – a collection of disparate traits; on screen, it works perfectly. Mona is another well established character and the narrative actually being about a repressed and dorky dad discovering BDSM as a way of coping with loss – and as a way of finding himself – is novel enough to make up for any narrative clichés. I won’t say anything else because I don’t want the story spoiled for you. Definitely not a horror film, honestly more of a very skewed dark romantic comedy through the lens of kink and S&M. All in all, DDWP is just great. All of this content is well presented and is, as said before, portrayed really stylishly.
It’s a film that doesn’t flinch and that pulls none of its visual punches.
The story followings a grieving husband who likes to be strangled. His descent may be linked to BDSM but this is definitively a sex-positive film.
If a Dog Wore Pants is an illustration of a dog wearing pants on all four legs juxtaposed with the same dog wearing pants on his hind quarters, asking viewers which style would be correct. And all of this works. Off-putting name aside, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (DDWP) is a really impressive movie full of excellent decisions.
Regarding the BDSM, this is another area where it is easy to be reductive.
Worth the time if you want something heavy but ultimately charming.Always cool to see films from my home country (Finland) mentioned on this subreddit.
Pekka Strang is just perfect as Juha, which is a difficult role. /sThis don't interest me but can some kind person tell me what's up with the odd title sounds like a title of a kids show like the Cats don't Dance movieThe title comes from a scene in the movie when the dominatrix refers to the main character as a dog.The plot is definitely more of a thriller but it has some intense scenes.R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit. Once again, this is not judging or maligning.