Red Dog
Title: Red Dog
Response type: Film
Directed by Kriv Stenders
Response written by Jesse Bird
The film Red Dog, directed by Kriv Stenders is an inspiring story about a stray dog that brought together the small community of Dampier and is based on a true story. Red Dog explores the ideas of loyalty, friendship, isolation, community, love and hardship.
Stenders uses a human-like approach through his representation of Red Dog. This can be seen when the character Jack, begins to explain Red Dog to Thomas and states “It’s not what he did but who he was.” This has the effect of privileging Red Dog as equal to Jack and everyone else. This also gives Red Dog an identity, he is not just some dog that they all loved. He had developed a personality and the townspeople understood Red Dog. By doing this Stenders is laying the basis to further develop Red Dog. By giving him an identity Stenders can make Red Dog a mate of the townspeople and use Red Dog to portray values and ideas. Stenders is clearly affirming the value of a personal identity. There is a great use of video technique, this is especially shown through the use of close-ups on Red Dogs eyes, which seem to give him that almost human emotion.
Another idea that struck me in the film Red Dog was the idea of the mining communities in Australia being like the Dilworth Community. As both are fairly isolated from everyone else, strong bonds are formed between the people living within the community. Each person gets to know each other really well. Red Dog also shows how people from many different parts of the world and from many different backgrounds can come together and become the best of friends. I believe that it is because you know what the people around you are going through, you know that the next person has it just as hard as you do.
Red dog is a great example of how much humans need animals. This can be seen at the beginning of the story where Vanno’s incessant harking back to his idyllic home town of Abruzzi
Response type: Film
Directed by Kriv Stenders
Response written by Jesse Bird
The film Red Dog, directed by Kriv Stenders is an inspiring story about a stray dog that brought together the small community of Dampier and is based on a true story. Red Dog explores the ideas of loyalty, friendship, isolation, community, love and hardship.
Stenders uses a human-like approach through his representation of Red Dog. This can be seen when the character Jack, begins to explain Red Dog to Thomas and states “It’s not what he did but who he was.” This has the effect of privileging Red Dog as equal to Jack and everyone else. This also gives Red Dog an identity, he is not just some dog that they all loved. He had developed a personality and the townspeople understood Red Dog. By doing this Stenders is laying the basis to further develop Red Dog. By giving him an identity Stenders can make Red Dog a mate of the townspeople and use Red Dog to portray values and ideas. Stenders is clearly affirming the value of a personal identity. There is a great use of video technique, this is especially shown through the use of close-ups on Red Dogs eyes, which seem to give him that almost human emotion.
Another idea that struck me in the film Red Dog was the idea of the mining communities in Australia being like the Dilworth Community. As both are fairly isolated from everyone else, strong bonds are formed between the people living within the community. Each person gets to know each other really well. Red Dog also shows how people from many different parts of the world and from many different backgrounds can come together and become the best of friends. I believe that it is because you know what the people around you are going through, you know that the next person has it just as hard as you do.
Red dog is a great example of how much humans need animals. This can be seen at the beginning of the story where Vanno’s incessant harking back to his idyllic home town of Abruzzi