Different Breed of Disturbing

although i found this to be a bit on the depressing side, Watership down i thought was perfectly tame, my four year old sister absolutely loves it, and isn't desterbed by it at all.

Plague Dogs is alot more disturbing than Watership down perhaps due to the horrible situation the dogs are in from the get-go. And it doesnt let up from there unlike Watership down where the rabbits are mostly dealing with more natural hazards for the most part.

I just starting watching it and right away I had a tense kind of sick trapped feeling too. I don't know but it made me feel horrible after.

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I see what you mean, about Watership Down as well as this film. When I first saw Watership Down, I thought the violence was disturbing, but for me the most disturbing bit was the bit just after Fiver gives his line about "the field" (I won't quote the whole line, as I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet). When the scene changes to black lines creeping over a white background, I thought that it looked terrifying, purely because of the way it was animated.

I've noticed that with many of the scenes in The Plague Dogs, the same principle applies. The starkness of the imagery makes it seem even worse when shocking things are shown. When we see what happened to Snitter's master, for example, the way it was shown so suddenly gave it an extra level of creepiness...

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Plague Dogs (and to a lesser extent Watership Down) make good use of silence and pauses (especially the uncut version of Plague Dogs). I am not sure I'd call this disturbing in of itself but rather a portrayal of how movies have become significantly more ADHD. This isn't to say Plague Dogs is not disturbing, but it is also beautiful and at times, even poetic. The fact that most of the cuts in this film were not of gore or violence but of touching, quiet moments that show the dogs in the wild, enjoying their momentary freedom tells a lot both about the way animated movies are perceived and the amount of patience that most viewers have for films.

So, as far as the film being creepy, I don't know. Parts certainly are meant to be creepy, but other parts may simply come off as untraditional in a time when movies are more and more the same.

I think they portrayed the violence/disturbing images the way they did because the animals act like real animals. We're so used to seeing Disney's sentimental humanized animals that cry over their dead parents and develop bizarre friendships with animals they would normally eat or ignore.

I love the "disturbing" qualities of WD and PD. Could you imagine if Plague Dogs had been animated like The Lion King or Bambi? It would have totally destroyed the essence of the story.