![]() He is highly trained, and, as it is eventually revealed, slightly bionic, but what makes him an excellent bodyguard is that he is an excellent dog, and therefore is incapable of keeping his professional relationship with his master strictly professional. He used to be the bodyguard for Atari, the orphaned nephew of the evil, cat-loving mayor. Spots’s relationship with his master, Atari, drives the film’s plot. A short-haired Oceanic speckle-eared sport hound, Spots has a dalmatian-esque coat, a pink nose, and the bluest eyes in the world-eyes which, as we learn, are capable of producing actual tears when Spots is overcome with love. Spots (Liev Schreiber) Screenshots via Fox Searchlight ![]() ( Warning: There are mild dog-related spoilers below.) 1A. ( Isle of Dogs sounds like “I love dogs”-get it?) Here is a ranking of the film’s canine characters, all of whom are good. I am a dog expert, and this is a movie that features a variety of good dogs. Go read some of my very good colleagues for the appropriate movie analysis. We could talk about how the silly Japanese people are saved by an excitable white foreign exchange student.īut no, we’re not going to talk about any of that stuff. We could talk about the fact Yoko Ono plays a character named Yoko Ono. We could talk about the fact Wes Anderson is famous for killing dogs in his movies, portraying them as helpless victims of the idiocy of humans, and how here, in Isle of Dogs, he has chosen to give dogs the power. We could talk about the film’s use of language and the way much of its dialogue is left in untranslated Japanese (luckily for American viewers, many puppy-related words, such as “petto,” “bisuketto,” and “fetchi” happen to be loaned from English). We could talk about the film’s politics-its anti-dog, science-hating, megalomaniacal villain and its possible (read: definite) real-world applications. For example, we could talk about the technically magnificent use of stop-motion animation. There are a lot of aspects of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs that we could talk about.
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