![]() Whenever they meet, he implores Mona to take his life in her hands until his pain reaches its climax-the skillfully shot moments of suffocation will have viewers gasping for air. Juha initiates a game of cat and mouse-or rather cat and dog-with the mysterious woman, giving into his addiction to pain and bringing him to his most ecstatic state. Harnessed to a throne as he roleplays as a dog, he toys with his life throughout the film. In his eyes, Mona is the symbol of a revolution that will allow him to unlock a torrent of desires. ![]() Juha increasingly devotes himself to his new addiction, and as a result, spends less time with his daughter and starts neglecting his work. He leaves his first encounter with Mona with a crushed nail, and begins to accumulate bruises and broken bones, as he frequently returns to the neon dungeon. ![]() From that moment, Juha falls into the world of BDSM, not as a result of trauma nor to try and escape it, but rather as an exploration of desires he had repressed for too long, maybe even finding love along the way. The father is forced to stay outside the parlour as Elli gets her tongue pierced, and starts to wander around, ending up in a dark neon-red basement, where he encounters the enigmatic and enticing dominatrix Mona (Krista Kosonen). That is, until his daughter Elli (Ilona Huhta) decides she wants a piercing, a wish that will bring them both to a place which becomes the stage of a new adventure for Juha. Juha, who works as a heart surgeon at a Helsinki hospital, buries himself in his work and puts on a facade as an attempt to hide how much the sudden loss-an alluded suicide-has affected him. However, this dream-like sequence turns out to be a memory from the past, and the dream quickly becomes more of a nightmare as the child’s screams flood the room and echo through the house.Ĭut to present day, Juha has been raising his daughter on his own in the aftermath of the passing of his wife, an event which caused his own symbolic death. The film opens with the portrait of a seemingly happy family – a bed shared by a couple, a child running around a house overlooking a river. Valkeapää’s deadly fairytale offers a gripping take on the subject by weaving pain and desire together in a neon-lit time capsule.Īdapted from Juhana Lumme’s art school graduation script, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants follows the emotional journey of Jeha (Pekka Strang) as he walks the fine line between the worlds of the living and the dead. ![]() “A deeply unsettling depiction of trauma.”įrom Buñel’s Belle de Jour to the more recent Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, films centered around the practice of BDSM have been heavily criticized and censored, in view of both explicit scenes and graphic depictions of violence. ![]()
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