Basically a scatter of notes for this film, uncovered and ready to spit out.
Straw Dogs:
Pearly white smiles. Cast, right on was appealing. Including The Monkee’s “I’m Going Down” song from my childhood from the brginning. Starts off like every other one does.
“What you done I heard about?” … “Probably nothin”
And the fridge isn’t damn cold enough.
They know their cars, guns, and bars. Which iclude how fast the hunt, what they hunt, and either Jack John or Jose and how fast they throw ‘em back,
Classic story of a man from the city moving into the country to write his novel. Another writer not knowing what he’s got himself into. Not realizing that even his girlfriend likes “attention”, just as any other woman does, but not to this very odd degree. It’s like she was asking for it.
Just don’t think this writer from New York is about to cut it here to write his book, in any way shape or form. Despite his weak attempts at even trying to work at his old fashioned type writer, I see nothing accomplished, He’s the guy who knows what global warming is, fashion, the library, and a lack of comon sense compared to the common folk of the south.
Doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal, but somehow in this movie, it becomes a big deal.
Tention builds for the couple as they try to adjust to life there.
But so much attention that is brought to the women in this film is what destroys it all.
Not just because David sticks out like a sore thumb, he is a nice guy, just different from the back woods construction type that his wife grew up around. When meeting her Ex boyfriend in a local bar in town, David hires “Charlie”, Amy’s Ex to work on the home that used to be her fathers while David works on his book about Stalingrad. After David is further introduced to the local flavors, things take a shocking turn, without making much sense. Wondering the whole time if it would lead to something that made more sense, we have “Of Mice and Men” character “Lenny” made over by Prison Breaks Dominic Purcell.”Of Mice and Men” meaning in here? Not even close enough to compare to the famous “Lenny”. It’s almost hard to see this duplicate, eventhough it’s protrayed by one of my “Prison Break” favorite inmates, Dominic Purcell. Too much?

This casting call needs a swift kick in the ass for this. The option ALONE to cast Purcell in this movie was wrong from the start. Still waiting for something more concrete. This, meaning that he SANK while doing what he was told as an actor much more qualified for a role such as this.
being not so conclusive to constructive conteplation, he stays.
Maybe he should have just stuck his nose in a book and kept it there.
The agression of the towns people continue.

You almost wish there was something you could do, or something that Charlie should have done sooner. I don’t think it would have taken much of a genious to figure out what may have happened if you didn’t put your priorities in order and protect what was yours in the first place.
This “Man Versus Wild” thing kills me everytime. There is almost always something more important to be doing while these banchees are running out into the woods trying to concur something as if it were a war, or a dramatic version of what today we call a depression.
This “itch” a man needs to control.
(I’d prefer sports that include golf or fishing to achieve that confidence or competitiveness). But I’m sure we’d all agree to see this man do anything, anything at all…
Crime is something we think will never happen to us, but in my mind, if you are the captain of your family you have a daily choice to do what matters most. Vacation and hobby’s aside, Charlie had a feeling as we can see in this film.
Whatever possessed him to go out and become someone he isn’t was just a cover up to maintain what I call a “cover”. Meanwhile, his wife is being raped, more than once. As David’s out hunting down what skills he thinks killing could do, you can see he isn’t proud of this acomplishment. So, what was the point?
Apparently they only have one cop in the whole town. This is ridiculous. This cop drinks at the local bar and is friends with everyone! Come on! LOL!
It lasted too long. Now couldn’t we just play nice and write a novel?
“Cover”, is the word I use, but it would and could most commonly be used in the form of a genuine “put on”… Sorry about your luck Davie Jones, you could almost feel something coming, not exactly what, but you would have been much more of a man in my eyes if you did what you would have normally done. Be present, as yourself. Leave the shooting or lack there of to whoever else and be youself, and do what you came here to do. Write.
But this must be the definition of left brain regret.
I can’t function any other excuse. Peer pressure would be the juvinile approached excuse for doing something he didn’t even want to do in the first place.
I’m sturggling as a viewer, wondering if that alone may be the theory behind this movie. Or maybe it’s all muscle to muscle over a woman. Or who can piss the farthest. But, again, I’m not finished. I have hopes this movie means something more than my theories.
Without watching everything prior, just tidbits at a time…I love when David comes home to find his wife in bed and as he’s telling her how he is going to “fire” the redneck’s who left him astray in the woods to hunt all day, I wonder how Amy can simply muster up the words “good for you, Coward.”
Because she’s right.
But why tell him the truth of what happend to her when he was away? It would only make him feel hopeless, and she needs him and every single bit of energy of power he has left in him to protect her in the future. Most women are stronger emotinally, and I’m hoping she keeps this to herself until and only if it can be used to fuel something inside David for his own or her own defense. Telling him would only banish that and give her a sense of helplessness, which without help, will most definatley hurt her for the rest of her life. A burden no woman that is selfless can pondure onto someone they love. But eventually, it should come out.
How? My best guess is yours.
Opinionted: Movie about “prey”, in more ways than one. “The Kill” the hunted for sport (when you are not accustumed to it) and the “prey” as in “Rape” (when you are not a willing participant)…
I think that once Michael learned that Amy didn’t love him back after his rape, he didn’t feel obligated to save her from everything else that followed. Lounging in one (of many) of Amy’s fathers chairs, I think he finally realized he had no control over her at all. Rape is the most common form of control to people that have that sickning power struggle.
When in Rome? Do as the “Romans do…”
What happens in Vegas…Stays in Vegas
And apparently, whatever football and construction workers have to do with “Straw Dogs” is still a mystery to me.
Straw Dogs: Def:
In business, something (an idea, or plan, usually) set up to be knocked down. It’s the dangerous philosophy of presenting one mediocre idea, so that the listener will make the choice of the better idea which follows.
To say the least, I wrote enough about it to say that I enjoyed what I saw. Give it a shot yourself and analyze it this far, It’s a dare.

prone to dominance displays and aggressiveness, merely fooling ourselves into thinking we’re not slaves to fleshly impulses
The first editions of this film are one thing. But this new verson pales in comparison. With a much cleaner and collectivley looking cast, the saying you can’t get by on looks alone makes more than perfect sense here.







(What’s with this cover?!?) LOL…















