: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
While the father is the architect of the family’s prison, the mother is a willing enforcer. The only outside influence allowed is Christina, a security guard at the father’s factory, whom he brings in solely to satisfy the son’s sexual urges. Christina’s introduction of outside items—like a Jaws VHS tape and a hair gel—acts as a catalyst for the corruption of the closed system. As the children begin to mimic the violence and language of the outside world, the parents' artificial utopia begins to crack.
Scholars often point to this as a critique of how language shapes our reality. By controlling vocabulary, the father controls the children's ability to even think about escape. This linguistic manipulation is explored in depth by researchers like those found on ResearchGate , who analyze the film through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the "paternal metaphor". The Greek Weird Wave and Political Allegory (PDF) Whose crisis? Dogtooth and the invisible middle class
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