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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Striking modern viewers with a forceful impact, WHITE GOD is a film that dog lovers should fear: it presents a taut and realistic tale of canine oppression and brutality that builds to some satisfying moments, but nonetheless presents near-endless animal cruelty along the way. As a dog lover myself I found it a tough watch, the kind of film that wears its heart on its sleeve for the most part. This overlong Hungarian allegorical tale offers a cautionary fable about the necessity of treating animals well and the consequences that can occur when they're treated badly. The scenes featuring the little girl are repetitive and endless and unnecessary, but the scenes with the dogs are spot on, harking back to classic stories like THE PLAGUE DOGS and WHITE DOG. What's most remarkable is that they were shot via live action with some wonderfully convincing performances from the dogs themselves.

This film is not only about the relation between dogs and humans. It is also about the Hungarian society with their neofascist political parties. How these parties persecute dissidents and minorities in the society. The total xenophobia that is shown, mostly against the population of Gypsy and Jewish origin, but especially during these days with the migrant crises. It was a fantastic powerful film also because of the ego-centric characters of the girl's parents and the brutality that money-gambling can fodder. The opening scene with the carcass and its stamp of approval also suggested the corruption inherent, and inherited, in the former communistic Hungarian state.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but with dogs. This Hungarian film about a dog uprising takes itself far too seriously and is pretty draggy throughout. When 13 year old Zsófia Psotta is forced to live with her father for a while while her mother is off teaching in Australia, she is not allowed to keep her beloved dog, Hagen. Her father (Sándor Zsótér) throws the dog out on the streets, and it experiences all sorts of horrors and humiliations until eventually it is able to escape, along with other abused dogs, from the pound's death row. The dogs then go on a vengeful rampage, and everyone who abused Hagen along the way feels their retribution. If this had been shorter and more exploitative, it might have been fun, but Mundruczó seems to think he has something to say (I mean, I suppose he does, about animal cruelty, but it's pretty straightforward and uninteresting). No, this isn't exploitation, it's art. It is actually quite good looking, and I'm impressed with the many animal scenes - it definitely had to have been a difficult shoot - but, all in all, it's pretty pointless.

A rewarding film if you don't expect too much. Even the scenes that don't involve an enormous pack of dogs rampaging through the streets of Budapest or smaller bands of doggy commandos hunting down their human vics have an unreal, fairytale quality. When 13-year-old Lili is separated from her beloved Hagen (great work by Luke and Body, a couple of strays from Arizona), the two subplots may seem a little shaky on their own, but the final scene, when they're reunited, is a moment of real transcendence. The fuzzy political allegory and the echoes of Hungary's tragic history are somewhat less engaging, IMHO—gun-toting dogcatchers making like an SS Einsatzgruppe, escapees from the dog pound taking to the streets against impossible odds like the rebels of '56, a Roma character ("gyppo" in the subtitles) being cheated and reviled, a downsized professor (Lili's father) working a menial job, even the stray allusions to Liszt and Wagner; could it really be true that owners of "non-Hungarian" dogs have to pay a special tax? (As with other films from this part of the world, you may not be able to tell whether what you're watching is meant to be straightforward realism or some sort of surrealist fantasy.) Horror aficionados will be disappointed by the reticent editing style—FX are limited, and no humans actually had their throats slashed in the making of this film… Fine performances and gorgeous cinematography, an epic feat of dog-wrangling—even if you're tempted to bail, hang on till that final scene.