White God Essay Questions

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1)What was the name of the film? Who produced the film? Who starred in the leading roles? Did it win any awards? ‘White God’ is a Hungarian film that was made in 2014. The film was written and produced by Kornel Mundruczo, Viktoria Petranyi, and Kata Weber. The lead role of Lili is played by Zsofia Psotta.Lili’s father is played by Sandor Zsoter. Hagen the dog is played by Bodie and Luke. The Palm Dog Award was awarded to the 250 shelter dogs that were trained for and that starred in this film. It won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 87th Academy Awards, however it was not nominated. 2) What motivated you to watch this film and …show more content…

The first night Hagen is locked in the bathroom by Lili’s father. Hegan is not used to his new surroundings and being separated from Lili. when he starts to loudly whine Lili goes to him and consoles him by playing her trumpet.Lili’s father lives in a place where all dogs that are mixed breed need to be registered and subject to a mongrel tax. The dog catcher shows up after a neighbor complains. He tells Lilis father he needs to pay the mongrel tax or turn the dog over to the shelter. Lili’s father does not want to pay the tax so he gives Lili the choice of taking the dog to a shelter, or setting him free. Hagen would be killed if taken to a shelter so Lili agrees to let him go. She tells Hagen to wait for her. The film splits to following the parallels between Lili and Hagen. Shifting back and forth through the adjustment of being apart, and trying to find each …show more content…

She did not have a lot of facial expressions making her emotions hard for the viewer to read. Her paralanguage style was monotone for the most part giving her rare vocal changes a more dramatic effect. 5) Would you consider the film to have a happy ending? Why or Why not? Would this film be popular in your home culture? Why or why not? This film did not have a happy ending. Knowing that Hagen and the other dogs will be executed is depressing. The real animals are the awful people who drive the dogs to go on a bloodthirsty rampage of revenge. The violence and poor treatment of the dogs in this film leads me to believe that it would not be very popular in Westernized culture. 6) Was there something in the film that you just didn’t understand? Please explain what it was and whether you think that it was culturally based confusion or not. Lili’s mother sends her to live with her father knowing the relationship is not what it should be for a 3 month holiday. She did not first check with Lili’s father if taking Hagen with her was exceptable. I think parents do things like this everywhere and it is not culturally

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