Good boy Director Ben Leonberg – curiosity in terms of horror films. This is because it undermines the point of view on the tape to focus your attention on the non -traditional main character: Indie, and Retriever This is able to perceive the presence of spirits. The choice is not a simple internal whim of a director – although it is his dog in real life – but an attempt to create a terrorist project that relies on an unexpected concept. In particular, to show the supernatural world from an unpredictable witness.
Thus, while other directors strive to study in the unknown through resources, such as Found shotsBen Leonberg is committed to the prospect of the animal as a thread of history. This, despite the fact that he avoids his main character, in all means for humanization or providing special opportunities. Indie is just a dog, faithful, charming and active, like all young dogs of their race, but nothing more. Without a doubt, this is a risky movement that is difficult to reproduce, and probably does not lead to a new current in the genre. This is because most of the action is based on Animal training and how the publication can help tell history.
Nevertheless, its features are enough for the film to differ in the rich market. Much more to deepen the idea of the unknown, using a common premise, and that anyone who has pets. Embarrassing cases when a pet seems to behave inexplicably. The director transfers this script to a horror tape with a brilliant history, which also surprises his ability to move. This is with a simple plot, which is actually not so much.
A good boy for one of the great horrors of the year
Good boy Surprised by several things. One of them is its duration. Seventy -three exact minutes that prevent dilution of voltage. There are no scenes of the filling. Everything is carried out in the gaze of Indie, a frightened observer, but who wants to give life to his master throughout the tape. This resource supports The public in the conditions of a reduced history in information, but loaded with a mystery.
And it is precisely this economy of resources, which prevents the film from overflowing or losing focus on unnecessary explanations. Instead, the data provided by the script is investigated in a difficult situation, which, of course, will worsen. From the very beginning, we know that Todd (Shane Jensen), the owner of Indy, pulls a serious disease. The medical picture is so complicated that it makes him leave the city and move to the old family house, shaky property surrounded by dark forests and memories. The solution opens the door to the sequence of situations in which supernatural It mixes with everyday, always observed from the dog’s attentive eyes.
Good boy Play the atmosphere elegant. So, from the first minutes of moving to a new house, it is obvious that something is waiting in the dark. Indie first discovers an anomaly: a stalker figure behind a vehicle. Todd is trying to force his dog to go out, but the animal resists. It is then that the director shows the way of developing history. Indie can see the shadow that is waiting in the rain, but its owner cannot understand their behavior. From this moment, Indie will be those who perceive the threats, while Todd is weakened and distracted, refuses to see what is happening around him. This role of investment makes the dog a hero with a more common sense than his own master.
Good horror in a well -thought -out story
Strange events accumulate from there. Indie is faced with how another dog looks, although he soon discovers that this is a spectrum. He also hears disturbing noises and the appearance of the presence, including the deceased relative: Grandfather Todd (Larry Fessenden), whose presence gives the tape the air of legitimacy from his experience in independent terror. A cemetery near the house, with the graves of relatives who died young, becomes another space loaded with an omen. Todd mentions this with indifference, without warning that these data enhance the sense of mortality. Indy, en Change, avoid those walks, as if it understood that there was something terrible there.
Ben Leonberg turns the script by Alex Knnon into a terrifying journey through a story that becomes darker and more sinister. In another of the great solutions in the section “ The director builds an increasingly tense atmosphere, without losing the impressive.
Nevertheless, the film does not seek to introduce innovations in the construction of paranormal phenomena: the phenomena are diffuse, it is hardly proposed, and that uncertainty reacts to a limited point of view of the protagonist of the dog. Seeing the world through Indy makes it inexplicable to be a series of abstract events that the viewer must order or give importance. The result is more sensory than a rational narrative, This to its last area becomes more intense and interesting.
Good end for a “good boy”
In the end, Good boy This works as a strange hybrid between gender cinema and affective experiment. The ability of Ben Leonberg and producer Kari Fisher to get such a convincing performance from Indie is wonderful. The dog reacts with the level of naturalness, which undoubtedly becomes the great heart of the film. In addition, with the ability to move to tears in the audience.
The film does not revolutionize terror, and he does not intend to do this, but his stylistic and emotional obligation gives him his place. Something to thank, in the repeating panorama of the formula. However, this dog story stands out with its simplicity, its sincerity and unexpected ability of the dog Keep your shoulders – or, rather, on your feet – a complete feature film.
And if you got here, we will leave you a secondary but necessary spoiler. Indie does not die, so you can see a film without shocks and worries.
Source: Hiper Textual
