Yorgos Lanthimos
Kynodontas

Watching a movie like Kynodontas does not afford you the luxury of simply liking or disliking it; it lets you choose whether to think about it or not.
Underestimating this sociological essay by making a didactic pantomime of what happens in the film: I'd rather not. If you prefer to do so, you can find it online by searching for any other review. And I'm not calling it an essay to show off, or because it hit me hard, or because I want to grab attention, but because if they put lasagna in front of my eyes, I don't call it layers of pasta with meat sauce, I call it lasagna. Yet, I don't eat it.
 
We can discuss Kynodontas, and it would be interesting to see the usual larvae retreating not without nervously shredding their nails, because things are fine just as they are and anyone who wants to change them is just a troublemaker. Maybe it's time to change something. Historical periods end, and sometimes an end coincides with a brilliant new beginning. Why not try? As often happens when you have to choose between two things, and there's no right or wrong answer. Is it better to make you suffer with the truth? Is it better if I spare you the suffering but hide the truth? In this film (just like in the subsequent Alpeis), Lanthimos displays a style that undeniably echoes Micheal Haneke. In any other film, this would matter for the final personal evaluation of the film, but in this case, it doesn't matter because, like talking to two people who think the same way, I'm not interested in who originally formulated the thought, I'm interested in understanding the perspective, and then analyzing myself.

If you can't stand Haneke, it's quite difficult for you to find anything interesting here.

Getting to the point, this film should be watched, and since no one has suggested it here, I'll give it a try. Hoping at least to spark some curiosity, and hoping not to attract the ferocious ones. If you don't like it, I'm even more interested in hearing your point of view; you might enlighten me. Or you might come out with the usual rant about violence for its own sake, or the unfortunate director wanting to make auteur cinema, who has fooled us all, poor sheep, following him for God knows what imagined trend.  No, this film talks about everything that is at the core of every person's life. This film talks about origins, power, limits. It starts with a family, in a reality that cannot exist because it is not real, within a game no one would enjoy, because in this case, the game is played with open cards.
 
Interpretation and direction perfectly align with what I enjoy lately; I applaud it because it makes me think and makes me want to watch more cinema, which is not a small thing.