There is a story about an emperor that got new clothes, magical ones, which were said to be invisible to stupid people. The thing is, there were no clothes, so no one could see anything but a naked man. For fear of the others thinking they were stupid, no one said they couldn't see anything.
Well, this film is somewhat like that tale, but the new clothes do actually exist, visible in plain sight, but stupid people cannot see them!
In the beginning of the film, we have a boy dreaming. The camera work is bizarre and the action flows weirdly. The viewer is taught what a dream looks like in this film.
Then the protagonist appears. Obviously, he's so much smarter than any human in the film. He's not perfect, but, then again, a hero without flaws is boring. We got to see him evolving and becoming exceptional.
Many things happen and, nearing the end, the canine hero has a though mission, save his boy from a bomb about to explode. He manages to pick the bomb and run off camera. A moment later, we hear an explosion, and nothing else.
Immediately after that, we get another dream sequence. All characters in the film show up there, even the villains, cheering up happily the boy and the hero dog, who is finally shown, covered in bandages, but we can see he's got only minor scrapes... The end... Credits row...
How many films have you seen with multiple endings overlapping? I'm not talking about films like "Upstream Color" (2013), which has no ending (or plot, for that matter), leaving all interpretations to the viewer. What I'm talking about are films with unambiguously simultaneously different endings, depending on perception of details by the viewer, like "Blade Runner" (1982), "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999), and "The Matrix" series (1999, 2003).
"Bingo" may not appeal to all, for several reasons (I know how badly non-human actors may be treated off camera, like Flipper or Keiko, or even off stage, like all marine mammals at Sea World), but as far as this genre of film goes, it's by far the best, not only criticising the genre itself, but doing it in a cinematographically interesting way, giving something for both little children that see a perfectly happy ending, and adults, that see the gloomy side of hero work.
Well, this film is somewhat like that tale, but the new clothes do actually exist, visible in plain sight, but stupid people cannot see them!
In the beginning of the film, we have a boy dreaming. The camera work is bizarre and the action flows weirdly. The viewer is taught what a dream looks like in this film.
Then the protagonist appears. Obviously, he's so much smarter than any human in the film. He's not perfect, but, then again, a hero without flaws is boring. We got to see him evolving and becoming exceptional.
Many things happen and, nearing the end, the canine hero has a though mission, save his boy from a bomb about to explode. He manages to pick the bomb and run off camera. A moment later, we hear an explosion, and nothing else.
Immediately after that, we get another dream sequence. All characters in the film show up there, even the villains, cheering up happily the boy and the hero dog, who is finally shown, covered in bandages, but we can see he's got only minor scrapes... The end... Credits row...
How many films have you seen with multiple endings overlapping? I'm not talking about films like "Upstream Color" (2013), which has no ending (or plot, for that matter), leaving all interpretations to the viewer. What I'm talking about are films with unambiguously simultaneously different endings, depending on perception of details by the viewer, like "Blade Runner" (1982), "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999), and "The Matrix" series (1999, 2003).
"Bingo" may not appeal to all, for several reasons (I know how badly non-human actors may be treated off camera, like Flipper or Keiko, or even off stage, like all marine mammals at Sea World), but as far as this genre of film goes, it's by far the best, not only criticising the genre itself, but doing it in a cinematographically interesting way, giving something for both little children that see a perfectly happy ending, and adults, that see the gloomy side of hero work.