DogtoothIt's amazing how fascinated I am by the premise of this movie. I've discussed the topic more often than makes sense!
If you don't know the premise, you should really watch it blind. It's really fun to discover as you watch.
It's a pretty strange movie. The line between humor and drama is very blurred, but I found it quite effective at being both deeply disturbing and quite funny. Beyond the basics, I'm not sure it has much to say about the perverse social experiment it portrays, but it remains interesting enough to sustain the film.
Rabbit HoleA rather nice, if not wholly original, drama about grief. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart both give great performances, although something about Kidman bothered me from time to time. The subject is perhaps a little too bluntly addressed at times, but for the most part it's well written. I really admired that the characters were able to be portrayed under the weight of such intense emotion - and the conflicts that created - without losing their sympathy. It doesn't avoid going big when it wants to, but there is an intelligent restraint to it that keeps it from going down (most of) the obvious roads.