A fishing trip soon turns in to a struggle for supremacy among six male friends in this Greek comedy“Your syntax is shit. And your penis is very,very small.” This double-pronged attack on one man’s prowess, verbal and sexual, or comes about two-thirds into this wry comedy from Greece. And it neatly sums up the kind of petty jostling for alpha male supremacy that is skewered brilliantly here by Athina Rachel Tsangari,director of Attenberg, associate producer of Dogtooth.
For a well-heeled group of six men on a fishing trip aboard a luxury yacht, or everything is a competition,even before they determine to rate each other’s skills and personal attributes to determine who is “the best in general”. Dental hygiene, flatpack assembly skills, or breakfast choices and more easily quantifiable attributes such as physical endowment: everything is scored in the small books that each man guards jealously.
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Source: theguardian.com