狗不穿裤子

随着年龄一天天在变大，我们会越来越有这样的感触：富有意义不必和做大事业联系在一起，惊天动地也不是幸福的必要成份。使我们温馨永存、回味无穷的，常常是生活中某些看来并不起眼的细节和稍纵即逝的瞬间。便看似平平淡淡、普普通通，实则让人回味无穷，是一部给人深刻启迪的作品。人的一生是短暂而又漫长的，人生的历程从来就是不平坦的。一个人想要在一生中有所作为，实现自己的理想，随时随地都可能遇到意想不到的挫折。在挫折面前应如何应对，影片用实际行动给了我们一个明确的答案和深深的启示

“导演双周”跟戛纳主竞赛单元的最大区别在于没有设立奖项，所以这个单元的选片涉猎广泛而百无禁忌。喜剧片是雷打不动的固定传统，数量最多，其次是敏感的战争大屠杀、LGBT、惊悚恐怖类型，以及不少大尺度的情色题材。这部出自芬兰新导演的作品相信是去年“导演双周”里最有噱头、最吸引眼球的一部。我最初是被《狗不穿裤子》这个有趣的片名吸引而来，片名来自性虐角色扮演游戏中女主人对受虐者的命令。影片中的男主角并非天生的性虐狂，而是在一次偶然的场合里被激发出这种扭曲的欲望。这种重口味性癖好掩盖下实际是他对亡妻的念念不忘，他在多年前拯救落水妻子时遭遇窒息，最终令妻子不幸身亡。从此之后，他陷入自责和内疚的心理阴影中，直至在性虐游戏里再次体验到当时窒息的感受，而获得心灵上的解脱。

事实上，这种用大尺度方式来治疗心理抑郁的主题早已不新鲜，不少日本导演（三池崇史、冢本晋也、园子温）和欧洲艺术片里都有出色的展示。这部作品带有北欧电影的冷幽默气质，捶打昏迷者胸口和凭空拔牙两场戏足可见这位导演对昆汀的迷恋式致敬。遗憾方面在于男女主角的感情线发展过于急促，令情节向小清新纯爱故事倾斜，逐渐偏离原本的暗黑色彩。另一个是女儿的角色篇幅较多，却无法与男主角的心理演变过程产生太多交集，沦为可有可无的赘笔。

Surgeon Juha (Strang) lost his wife in the drowning, and 5 years later, raising their daughter Elli (Huhta) all by himself, he is still disengaged with the world around him, when Elli introduces her teacher Satu (Airola) to him, he remains disinterested.

Chancing upon a dominatrix named Mona (Kosonen) and the experience of being choked by her jolts Juha out of his detachment, but how far will he go to explore the BDSM fetish? In his third feature DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS, Finnish filmmaker J-P Valeapää patiently titillates us down this rabbit hole, but he errs on the side of using BDSM purely as a pain-inducing therapy, and forgets to tell audience, that pleasure is the ultimate elixir.

What takes the lion’s share of the story is Juha’s drab life, his home is as antiseptic as his working place, the communication between him and Elli is occluded, he prefers a BDSM session over Elli’s band performance in the school, which says a lot about what a parent he is, and we aren’t informed if his wife’s decease is an accident or not, is there marital strife in the play? Meanwhile, the fascinating Mona is utilized solely as an enigma, is playing dominatrix a side hustle for fast cash or stems from her id? It could be both but the answer is moot. Again, there is no pleasure in their role play, Juha only wants to experience the feeling of suffocation to re-live that drowning tragedy, to meet his dead wife again, underwater and breathless, not the frisson of ASMR or orgasm. And a po-faced Mona is a pro doing her routines with as less emotional attachment as possible, she doesn’t seem to enjoy what she does, not for a minute, if anything, only some unspecified disturbance are looming beneath her spandex get-up. So, if the story sounds perversely erotic, Valeapää’s execution is rather somber, un-sexy and queasy (fingernail-pulling and tooth-pulling are far from the nexus of BDSM), and when Mona’s professional facade predictably cracks, we are not any the wiser.

The two leads are merely serviceable, an angular Strang acts as if he is habitually sedated, his pallid complexion has no charisma to spare, and Kosonen makes a far more resounding splash, benefiting from Mona’s stupendous physical transformation, however her side of untold story would have been infinitely more interesting than Juha’s tired jeremiad.

If, for most of the time, the film is a drag, at least Valeapää suffixes some positive vibes in the end, when Juha finally cracks a smile to embrace his kink, it should be a beginning rather than a finish, but that’s all she wrote, and DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS fails BDSM epically.

referential entries: Peter Strickland’s THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (2014, 8.0/10); Aki Kaurismäki’s LE HAVRE (2011, 8.3/10).

English Title: Dogs Don’t Wear Pants

Original Title: Koirat eivät käytä housuja

Year: 2019

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Finland, Latvia

Language: Finnish

Director/Screenwriter: J-P Valeapää

based on the original story by Juhana Lumme

Music: Michal Nejtek

Cinematography: Pietari Peltola

Editing: Mervi Junkkonen

Cast:

Pekka Strang

Krista Kosonen

Ilona Huhta

Jani Volanen

Oona Airola

Ester Geislerová

Iiris Anttila

Rating: 6.2/10

随着年龄一天天在变大，我们会越来越有这样的感触：富有意义不必和做大事业联系在一起，惊天动地也不是幸福的必要成份。使我们温馨永存、回味无穷的，常常是生活中某些看来并不起眼的细节和稍纵即逝的瞬间。便看似平平淡淡、普普通通，实则让人回味无穷，是一部给人深刻启迪的作品。人的一生是短暂而又漫长的，人生的历程从来就是不平坦的。一个人想要在一生中有所作为，实现自己的理想，随时随地都可能遇到意想不到的挫折。在挫折面前应如何应对，影片用实际行动给了我们一个明确的答案和深深的启示

不太好评价、引发生理不适的性学电影。各种SM各种性虐，鳏夫在变态的路上一路狂奔。以为是外因，其实是内在，最后的释放才是真我。

故事讲述的是朱哈与一个名叫莫娜的女强人建立了一种意想不到但却很强大的联系，他经历了人生中的一件悲惨事件，导致他情感瘫痪。他对窒息的危险嗜好得到了莫娜的报应，莫娜带领奇旺走上了一条疯狂而疯狂的情感启蒙之路。狗不穿裤子是一个黑色幽默的故事失去，爱和甜蜜的痛苦存在。

不太好评价、引发生理不适的性学电影。各种SM各种性虐，鳏夫在变态的路上一路狂奔。以为是外因，其实是内在，最后的释放才是真我。 故事讲述的是朱哈与一个名叫莫娜的女强人建立了一种意想不到但却很强大的联系，他经历了人生中的一件悲惨事件，导致他情感瘫痪。他对窒息的危险嗜好得到了莫娜的报应，莫娜带领奇旺走上了一条疯狂而疯狂的情感启蒙之路。狗不穿裤子是一个黑色幽默的故事失去，爱和甜蜜的痛苦存在。