In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.... (Full plot summary below)
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In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.
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| User ReviewTara AI don't know how this went under my radar for so long, but as a documentary film mkaer who has been weighed down by all the recent shlock... this film restored my faith in the medium/genre. |
| User Reviewkivernitis IUlrich Seidl becomes intimately involved with the strangest characters and the pets they obsess over. Amazing. Also a nightmare in many ways. |
| User ReviewMarc RThis depressing and realistic film is hard to endure, but it is worth every minute of it. It is shot in Vienna, but could be anyplace in the Western world. |
| User Reviewbutch hIn conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows. |
| User ReviewMorgan Bpowerful, disturbing, revealing, and depressing. Woo Hoo. |
| User ReviewSharon BThis film is very funny. I think Seidl has a unique skill when it comes to capturing individuals' devotions, in this case to their animals. I like that he seems to really respect his subjects. He doesn't seem to ever belittle them, which other filmmakers might easily have done given the quirkiness of the subjects. I think I may like his documentary Jesus, Du weisst slightly better in terms of capturing devotions humorously, but Tierische Liebe is solid work. |
| User ReviewPaul NThis film is fantastically weird. It's seems at first to be about pets but actually it's all about people. |
| User ReviewPrivate Umaybe not the best seidl but one of the most bizarre. definately worth seeing |
| User ReviewRaul BA melancholically comic and critical documentary portrait of multiple different pet lovers in bleak Eastern Europe. The viewer is inundated with scenes of lonely humans pawing fetishisically at their domesticated pets, always on the subversive periphery of anything overtly beastial. The overall effect is too understandibly unpleasent for many, judging by the aborted viewings described in the netflix reviews, though many others will find it worthwhile (though tough going) as any honest view into dark subject matter may demand. Fetishism, which we can define as when one part is elevated above the whole, is ultimately revealed to be director Ulrich Seidl's subject here. More specifically, pets as a fetishistic conduit between humans who have unhealthily surrendered to the sensory titilation of contact with animals, or in some cases the animal nature of contact between humans or between ahuman and himself. All fetishsim is a surrender. These are lonely humans who have been unable to resist this inward withdrawal. This type of surrender takes the form of circularity, like water running down the drain or any repetitious/addictive act. Siedl's film is circular in its form because his stance is ironic toward his subjects, the forceful ambiguity of what subjects on the periphery of a character (when highlighted) can tell us about their core or soul. The static portraiture shots of the humans siletly staring at us with their comically oblivoius animals in the background take on an increasingly confrontational tone; despite their absent conscious awareness of the darker portents manifested in their "animal love" the expressions, an effect of the additive/repetitive nature of the film's design, become markers of shame. I like to think this implies that these souls are salvagable. |
| User ReviewKarolina MI honestly can't remember the last time a movie made me this physically uncomfortable. |
