The mater was a very disturbing yet thought provoking stop frame animation. It shows us a sausage dog which appears to be waiting for its owner to return and after some time, checking the door every so often we see a caged monkey is also in the room which is very strange. The monkey seems quiet violent scaring the dog especially when it breaks out of its cage and starts to destroy the house, however this is when the film starts to seem more symbolic. The monkey begins to don the clothes of the owner of the house and moves on to abuse the dog, buy food and even sleep with the dog. This ultimalty leads to the death of the dog when the foolish monkey finds a gun and once the dog dies from the gun shot wound as well as having had its leg broken by the monkey, the monkey proceeds to shoot itself in the mouth committing suicide.Its a very morbid and disturbing animation with taxidermy like designs for the characters which makes it seem disjointed from reality as if the events between the dog and monkey are happening in another world. The actions of the monkey towards the dog reminded me of what an abusive relationship could be like, the monkey hits the dog as it whimpers ad runs away then the monkey got food as an apology, even sleeping together at one point but then returning to fearing the monkey once it started to drink and get drunk leading to the dog hiding under the sofa. Other views could just look at it with dominance over others but to me its dominance in a relationship and an abusive one at that.
I like how it was possible to have multiple interpretations of an animation with its true meaning being rather obscure. It has a really curious concept to it where it comes down to how a person views a situation.
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