In Black Dog, Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng exudes a silent strength.
Former convict Lang , a stunt motorcyclist, returns to his home town, a dusty spot on the edge of the Gobi Desert. Shuttered businesses and empty homes are mostly what he finds because the mining operation which was once the town’s main activity has shut down. Feral packs, formed by dogs abandoned by former residents, roam the streets. With the 2008 Beijing Olympics around the corner, the government launches a stray-clearing campaign.
In that respect, Lang’s story will remind viewers of Clint Eastwood’s westerns, in particular Pale Rider , in which Eastwood plays a man with no name, riding into a dusty locale with no future and against his will, and becomes the focus of the townsfolk’s hope as well as their hatred. Everything looks absurd from Lang’s point of view, which is the view that the film sympathises with. The loner finds neither joy nor meaning in anything. Some view him as a man without purpose, when he tries to make it clear that he is fine without one. However, the police, his enemies, family and even a passing circus contrive to ensnare him in their plans.
Guan’s days as an outsider film-maker looked to be numbered when he signed up to direct mass-market movies, such as the patriotic anthology My People, My Country and war biopic The Eight Hundred . Both were solid works of entertainment. But with Black Dog, he seems to have come back to his indie roots, in great style.Knox Goes Away Michael Keaton plays a contract killer who is diagnosed with degenerative dementia in Knox Goes Away.
A dogged police detective is already connecting him to the triple homicide when his estranged adult son visits that night, desperate for help to cover up his own violent crime: He stabbed his teen daughter’s sleazebag lover.Neither does the story, because the subplot is convoluted and sentimental about family atonement.
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