It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie shows how parents can indoctrinate their children into anything. Some people find it odd, but consider the mythological indoctrination all around us, I think this movie presents a highly plausible scenario.

I didn't see the humor here but understand that a dominant sick father can control his family with fear. Don't waste your time or believe the hype. It could have been better

I came to know about this movie in some website and saw these brilliant reviews people wrote in IMDB. So I started watching this movie with a lot of expectation. After it ended I was like wtf did I just watch. Well if you want to make a movie about unrealistic concept why not make a movie about parents who teach their children to eat shit and drink piss from their childhood? I mean if you want to make a 2 hr movie about all possible psychotic concepts u can come up with thousands of it. Though I can still see some reviewers going to term those concepts as disturbing and thus .. brilliant as well. First of all no justification was given why the parents kept those children confined inside the compound. So I guess they were nutjobs. And the children who were violent enough to brutally kill cats, strong enough to pull out their own tooth, rebel enough to have sex with each other, cant overpower and overrule two old people to gain freedom? Salt is telephone and sea is sofa .. really? So the dad had to memorize and call them in two different names in office and home everyday? lol just think about it. Also the parents who didnt give them books, didnt give them education, didnt give them any means of entertainment or bought any toys or games, are kind enough to provide a girl for the boy's sexual pleasure? Oh my god I feel my heads gonna explode stating the loopholes. But u know what its a very nice movie to spoof. That would be hilarious. I sincerely hope the writer and director take a long break and re-evaluate themselves and the primary purpose of movie making before taking the next step. And the positive reviewers should also give one visit to the nearest phychiatrist. (pardon my english)

Authority is a person or organization having political or administrative power and control. Governments have authority on their people or on other states. Understanding the fact that authority is the reason of major events that we are not aware while time is swift. We should consider of our parents as an authority in minor scale. This is exactly what Dogtooth wants us to think of.Authoritarian father, his wife and his children live in peace and quiet isolated house with the garden. All events that happen is known by the father who obsessively wants to raise his children with his rules and his understandings. There are no diversity between the children to ensure consistency like the governments do. In the name of becoming uniform, children have no names. Hence, they can not develop their identities. They are all same to the father which is ruler. There are rules for everything and the rewards for achieving tasks. If we have rewards, there must be punishments too for the unsuitable actions. These are strong components of the system which runs by the father. Language is created by parents too. They change words' meaning like in pussy and zombie scenes. That is another example for use of power. Beside that, he keep his authority on his children in patriarchal way. He assigns task for his elder daughter to satisfy her brother who had previously a woman to meet his sexual urges like a robot. On the other hand, there is even no chance to talk about his daughters. Raising his children with this attitude keeps them stay in their childish behaviors. We can view that in many scenes such as arguing about the plane toy and sleeping with their parents. They can not grow to maturity.Children obtain information about everything without questioning from the tape which has recorded before. It is their only way to learn something such as geometry. We have also seen that in the record player scene which the father makes wrong translations for maintaining loyalty to the authority and the family. He also ensures his sovereignty by this action. Fear is another need for achieve his monopoly. All the dinners should be attended formally. Remember the scene that his daughters discusses their dresses are okay or not. Because they are afraid of their fathers reaction if he finds anything improper. In order to block interactions with the outer world between his children, father removes all labels and tags on the products they use. This idea makes me think about the North Korea. People of North Korea get what their leader gives.All the mess begin with the woman who is a security guard. When she wants to misuse elder child for the first time, elder starts to learn from her about the outer world. Because of routine of reward system, she did not hesitate to fulfill her demands and maintain the same attitude for her sister. Movie tapes leaves bigger impression for the elder. The idea of leaving started to grow. However when she decided to leave, she tried with the way that defined by the father which says they can only leave if their dog-tooth's fall down. Another example of outer world encounter is the cat. It becomes another fear and misery for the children. Misery always pull people to its unknown that the father uses a lot.Finally, I want to add two more things which light upon. First one is mirroring between the dog trainer and the father. They both work for "cultivating" of their "pupils". Second is perception of happiness. Whether if we talked about father's actions is proper or not, children are happy to be there. It is like us in our tiny worlds without realizing anything out of it.