I wonder if there is any particular reason why he hosed his son after he had been hiding in the dogs' house and then, later on in the movie, expresses his discontent with the patrol dog, because he smells.
shareYes! I wondered the same thing... Haven't puzzled it out yet though..
shareI just attributed it to a little character trait meaning nothing in particular. Another one is he seems to like yogurts, just helps to build a character I guess.
shareI thought it was to do with his lack of appropriate parental skills, not so much the smell of the dogs.
He seems to lose his *beep* really easily and quickly with Sam, so he became angry when he asked the boy to get out of the dog pen, he didn't listen so he probably thought the best way to teach him a lesson and punish him by humiliation thus showering him down with cold water in the middle of the communal garden.
Don't think it was to do with the actual smell of the dogs, just that he isn't a good parent and probably didn't want to wash him later in the bath or something.
I'm wearing a tuxedo for no apparent reason.
I agree. Although i would not have shocked such a small child with cold water from the hose starting with his head. I would have told him to stand still while I hose the doodoo off your legs and feet. If some where in his hair and upper body, I would have used my finger to disperse the force of the water, but i don't blame Ali for not wanting the kid to track the doodoo through the house on the way to the bathtub/shower.
shareafter realizing this film is based on a book, and that the filmmaker changed the character that lost it's legs from male to female - I began to wonder how in the world would the characters work? Where would Ali fit in?
So I still plan to read the book, but I don't understand why this film would even consider itself based on the book and not just stand on it's own as an independent story.
Here is the book description:
Rust and Bone - In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, and gamblers. In his title story, Davidson introduces an afflicted boxer whose hand never properly heals after a bone is broken. The fighter's career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee, no rules, not even gloves. In "A Mean Utility" we enter an even more desperate arena: dogfights where Rottweilers, pit bulls, and Dobermans fight each other to the death.
Davidson's stories are small monuments to the telling detail. The hostility of his fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters and by his subtle and very moving observations of their motivations. He shares with Chuck Palahniuk the uncanny ability to compel our attention, time and time again, to the most difficult subject matter.(less)