movie review - Straw Dogs
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Vancouver, 2002.07.02
I'm writing this review a full two weeks after I watched the flick, because I've been trying to decide what the point of the thing really was. It's a Sam Peckinpah movie, so I haven't been trying too hard, but it's been nagging at me. It's about a young American mathematician and his English wife who return to the small town where she grew up so that he can work on a book on mathematics. The couple are terrorized by thugs from the local village, the whole thing explodes. The last scene makes it seem like the point is 'killing will make you a man'. I dunno. I can't recommend this one; the unnecessary rape scene alone is enough to stay away from this.
Not recommended.