There is a scene in Good Boy (2025) where it takes Indy and its owner is a short break on their way to explore the forest. The owner roams something and then looks at his dog, asks, “Am I crazy?” Indoye only looks at him, as if giving him a look says, “No, not at all.” With Indi sufficient for him, the owner looks at his dog and simply says, “Yes, you get it.” How many times have all happened to you? Sitting with your pet, wandering around what you feel, and thinking that your pet is just understood all you said?
Watching a movie always shows a dog a frightening idea. You constantly ask the clear question: Will the dog die? Will something happen to him? For some reason, you are not interested when watching a movie with a cat in it. You know that the cat will occupy the moment you feel threatened. But the dog will even keep his last breath with the owner if the situation descends. This is what they are doing. Dogs are unconditional and emotional beings that devote their entire lives to provide their best capabilities on the welfare of “the two”.
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The Ben Leonberg’s guideline feature, which he participated in writing with Alex Cannon, is characterized by his real life “Good Boy” (one of the most beautiful appearance mutations, which is the Nouva Scotia duck) alongside Shin Ginsen in the role of Todd and Ariel Friedman in the position of Vera. He would have liked inside and outside the hospital due to chronic lung disease and has not been his best in recent times. One day, Todd adventure decided to move with his dog to his deserted grandfather’s cabin in an isolated forest, although his sister Vera opposes the idea. Upon reaching the property, you want to want immediately; However, Indy – the dog – starts work. He is constantly worried, looks around, tries to understand Huuman, and it is clear that his nose is working all the time, and he traces something in the place.
Horror movies are recently trying to invent the idea of this type. Pov (point of view), in particular, was just a new take over the plot. Remember The presence of Soderberg This takes you closely within the nuclear family defects through the POV ghost? At the same time, through the eyes of the ghost, you also learn every corner and corner of the house and how every member moves inside. This does not give the character not only to the characters of the story but also to the home itself, whose residents have witnessed their lives inside.
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In good, we see everything through the dog’s eyes. The path of communication is limited to wasting, mone or barking. While we see the dog, we also see his facial expressions erupted by his constant fear and anxiety about its sick owner. We do not see the faces of human characters; Everything appears at the level of our hero’s eyes. What caught my attention in the movie is how it contains a similar camera’s work, but it is strange. He reminded me Blair Witch Project (1999). The camera style on foot and death builds the tone and tension that constantly puts Indy on the edge of the abyss, anxious about the presence of a dark and villain that lurks around the house and that its owner is in great danger.
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The danger, of course, is the idea of death that waves on the horizon, which has not been well proven due to his chronic illness, which leads him to severe mood swings, isolation and depression that somehow runs in his family. In one of the scenes, when you explore the forest with Indi, the dog becomes increasingly concerned to see a lot of graves. She explains Todd with his dog that he is fine because most of his family members have died young and are now buried there. In another scene, Vera inquires about the feeling of Indi and whether he has inhaled the place too much or stays near her brother all the time.
Dogs can feel death – or worse – shortly before anyone else. They understand the danger and warn their owners faster than a tracking device. This is why mutations are often chosen and trained, provided that service dogs or treatment become on other animals. Their instinctive and rapid skills of decision -making often avoid their owners. However, in the good boy in Leonberg, Indi is confused and unable to understand the idea of danger. He does not know anything better, and somewhat, it seems that Todd, who understands what is happening to himself, takes Indy to his grandfather’s place to teach him how to grieve if something happens to him indefinitely. You would like to realize the fact that isolation can highlight the worst; However, as a good owner of the dog, I want to learn how to survive and move forward. Usually, as human beings Watch death From our beloved pet, it takes years to reach venting. However, in goodness, it is the one who should learn the opposite.
The dog who cannot speak or express the human language is what he was going through, and Lyonberg is brilliantly used in the eyes of Indi, but the curiosity, the tail, the ear files, and its nose to show the constant, anxious state he faces to its owner. Especially the nightmares of the ways whose owner may surrender painfully to his last breath – continues to reconsider them several times, which may feel repeated to some viewers. But is not our dreams and nightmares from repeated manifestations of our fears and disciplines? Especially when we reside in a place where we expect death?
In addition to the studied photography of the dog’s point of view in understanding the death of its owner, the film is skillfully exploring the idea of mental illness – how it is often solved, unfortunately, it is transferred to young generations. What I have most is that despite the feeling of corruption and misery as a sick person, I would still like to put Indy first on everything he is going through. He does not want Indi to witness the dilapidated himself, and this is one of the most real and human things that the dog can do.
Interestingly, I found the idea of a dark harvest in a very convincing human form. One of the characters – the fox hunter who lives in the woods near the property of the inherited would like – wears a black pipe suit. It is very similar to the dark harvest in 1957 The seventh seal filmAnd that embodies the inevitability of death, it seems that this character casts its shadow on Indi, to remind the dog that he cannot protect his owner forever as looming on the horizon “black death”. This symbolism is strengthened in a scene where the hunter asks about what he does. From a distance, Todd seems to dig his grave, although he is actually simply looking for specific weeds in the forest, and does not provide any explanation.
Part of the movie that I felt could have been better through the low lighting of the film. It was very dark for a comfortable watching experience, and he benefited from showing how the dog already seen the world. The sound design (which features Indy Hush Graumms, Woofs and Allating Clauting all the time) and intense cinematic photography, Ben Leonberg did a great job in setting his dog as a Time character. Also, due to low budget production and supernatural atmosphere for the nature to which good Boy still stands out as one of the best horror movie for 2025 and original and deep meditation in death.
