2. The name of the heroine Grace: Grace is often used as a proxy for God in Christianity. At the same time, the literal translation of Grace is a state of sanctification by God, representing beauty, which is consistent with the heroine's perspective of God and the symbolism in the film. .
3. The town is called Dog Town, but the only dog in the town is named Moses (Moses, the greatest prophet in the Bible), ironically, people are not as good as dogs. At the beginning of the film, Chuck was very angry when he found that his son had fed Moses the fleshy bones, saying that we had not eaten meat for a long time, and that Moses should be hungry in order to protect everyone. . In the end the town was slaughtered, and Moses was pardoned by Grace.
4. One word and discussion throughout the film is "arrogant". Arrogance is one of the seven deadly sins of Christianity, and everyone in the film is arrogant. As a resident of Dogville and an ordinary human arrogant, Tom thinks he is more civilized than the rest of the town and is also an arrogant (under Grace's questioning, he finds that he is the same as everyone else), Grace's father is a gangster with wealth and power The eldest arrogant, Grace himself is also an arrogant from God's perspective to forgive everything (and eventually find himself the same as everyone else).
5. The seven deadly sins of Christianity are: arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, lust, and gluttony, all of which are reflected in the film. Everyone in the film is arrogant, Liz is jealous of Grace stealing the eyes of the men in the town, Grace slaughtered the village for rage, the whole town finally enslaved Grace for greed and laziness, the men in the town raped Grace for lust, Grace steals bones at the beginning, Tom and Chuck's gluttony when they refer to Ma Ginger's cinnamon pie.
6. Tom's father listens to the radio only to music but not to the news. Later, on Independence Day, the police came to post a missing person notice. The townspeople asked this question. At that time, the police asked, "Can you not receive the news?" Tom said my dad's radio only listens to music.
7. When introducing Bill, he said that he was a very stupid and crappy mechanic and he never thought he was a mechanic. Later, when he locked Grace, the narration introduced that the dog chain was designed by Bill, saying that it was the first design in his life, and he recently crafted it. Progress to an astonishing degree.
8. Tom said while playing chess with Bill that he felt that the townspeople needed to change and had difficulty "accepting", so they needed a gift. Here comes Grace, and Tom thinks Grace (the person) is a gift. Can be regarded as the author's pun: Grace (good, divine quality) is a quality that the dog people need, a gift to this town, but they have "acceptance" problems, so they don't. The premise of accepting beauty is that you need to first face your own weaknesses and accept the fact that you are not beautiful.
9. Grace said "I stole that bone. I haven't stolen anything before. So now I have to punish myself. I was raised to be arrogant, so I had to teach myself these things." I grew up in an arrogant family, so I needed to teach myself these things (like being punished for stealing), hinting at the larger context - her family environment and her disapproval of her own family environment, which is the same as in the end She echoes her dad's feud with the arrogant. At the same time, here she will be punished for her own wrongdoing, but she feels that she should be forgiven for the evil of others, and finally her father said that you should use the same standard to measure yourself and others (if you do evil To be punished, of course others will be punished for doing evil, why do you treat yourself differently from others, because you are arrogant from the perspective of God).
10. The second time arrogant appeared when everyone started accepting Grace's help, Tom said only Chuck didn't take the bait, and Grace said "Hooked? You sound so arrogant! Arrogance is the worst thing!" You sound so arrogant, arrogance is the worst bad thing!
11. 7 Porcelain Dolls: Each appearance is an iconic node. The first time was when Grace had just arrived at Tom to introduce her to the town, and Grace had good expectations; the second time was when Grace began to make money to collect these dolls. A statue, the good life begins; the third time is the big turning point Vera smashes the doll, and Grace begins to despair of the town.
12. Tom said to Grace that you have two weeks for everyone to accept you, and Grace said that what you said was like a game. The whole film is deliberately made to feel like a game, from the game-style drama set to the experimental behavior of Grace.
13. When Grace passed through Ma Ginger's bushes for the first time, the narrator specifically explained that the metal chain between the second and third bushes was to make it impossible for people to take shortcuts to the benches, and to take shortcuts with Grace behind. Echoed by Ma Ginger's scolding.
14. When Grace first went into the store and saw Liz's hands turning red, she said you'd be better if you rub some aloe vera tomorrow. Later, the girl gave this advice back to her when she went downhill.
15. Tom said that Georgetown had a speech about something intellectual with a leaflet in his hand, the leaflet gave a shot, it said "ADVANCED THOUGHT AND HIGHER THINKING" (advanced thinking and higher thinking), and the whole The discussion of the arrogant and the perspective of God has the same theme.
16. When Grace spoke to Chuck for the first time, Chuck said have you been fooled by this town, this town is rotten from the inside, and if it falls into the valley tomorrow I will definitely go watch. Dogtown has everything that the city people yearn for, but when I came here, I found that the people everywhere are the same, and the people here are all greedy animals. A word that breaks the sky.
17. Before Grace was raped by Chuck, the narrator stated that she was "like an apple of Eden, an apple that swelled to the point of juicy juice." Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and became ordinary human beings, and the residents of Dogtown were also human beings who could not escape the hurdle of desire. Chuck himself grows apples.
18. Vera came to the door to teach her that she was going to smash the porcelain dolls she bought after learning that her husband was messing with Grace, saying that if I smashed two of them, you can hold back your tears and I will not smash them. In the end, when Grace slaughtered the town, the thugs killed her son first in front of Vera, and told her that she would not kill if she could hold back her tears.
19. When Grace helped clean up the bed of the disabled June, she irritably said to herself, "No one should sleep here." first acquaintance.
20. Ma Ginger's cinnamon pie was mentioned three times, the first time was when Tom was spraying her plowing and she asked Tom if you like my pie, if you like it, you're with me or with her. The second time Chuck mentioned it when he first chatted with Grace. The third time is at the end of the credits when Grace gets out of the car and thinks and sees Ma Ginger's bush narration saying that fruit pie would be delicious, especially with cinnamon.
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