good question but who cares--it just blew my mind out of the back of my head--the movie, that is, not the dog--but they,the dogs, werecool too--before i write anymore i want to be sure you get this--why waste fingerprintss--first time i ve done this--d
shareThat whole bit about the dog, the dogpound, and her releasing all the dogs was terrific dreamlike symbolism. The dog obviously symbolizes Grazia's uninhibited sexuality.
sharewhatever, Dr. Freud :) But to answer the original question: It really doesn't matter. It is kinda something like the part where they get the dogs. This guy tells the kid he's gonna kill them. And the obvious reaction would be to expect the kid to tell him, hey why don't you give them to me! But we don't see that scene. This is the whole deal. You could as well just ask youself where did the dogs come from.
shareThere's a suggestion the dog has rabies or something similar. Pietro says she's been growling and also mentions there's all kind of sick dogs on the island, intimating the dog has picked up something. One could also surmise he thinks --at least subconsciously -- that his wife's illness is something she picked up from the dog and therefore that's his primitive way to deal with it.
shareExcept that rabies hasn't existed in Italy for decades, and it isn't even compulsory to provide your pet dog with an anti-rabies vaccine, though several other kinds of vaccine are. I worked in a dog shelter in Italy for years, knew the rules from the central municipal bureau of health etc, so I'm not just making assumptions or speculating about this. Respiro was phoney in virtually each and every one of its aspects, not to mention cliché-ridden. Terrible movie.
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