With it's immense debt to Jack London'w White Fang, about a domesticated dog l that is captured and tormented and trained to fight until it finds it's ultimate salvation with a loving master, this movie still adds plenty of surreal touches until it reaches a predictable conclusion, that still manages to be handled in a way that is not exactly what you'd expect. There's no escaping its corniness, which isn't always a bad thing by any means, and no escaping its humanness and messages about love and cruelty, and the human/animal relationship. All in all, predictability and corniness notwithstanding, I could not get away from it for a minute, found it genuinely touching and interesting, the brilliant management of the animals in this movie is unlike anything I've seen before in any movie that comes to mind. So......it all adds up to a very different experience and carries a real emotional punch. Most of the time i find the foreign movies, at least it's been my good luck, so vastly superior in every way to most things that come out of the USA, better then anything and everything from "hollywood', meaning a per movie budget that would bail out most countries nation deficits. The tiny % but vast majority of Indie horror genre stuff is about the only place creativity still exists in anything made in this evil sold out dehuminized place.....how could one expect art to come from the USA?
Review of White God
