Review of Straw Dogs (1971) by Paul Z — 27 Oct 2012
Everything that was important to Peckinpah about the dangers and fears of real human brutality he demonstrates in his work is distilled to perfectly down-to-earth form here. The portrait of civilized human stripped down to brutal primate can never be as purely and boldly extracted from a western or caper as it can be as an authentic study of contemporary male-female relationships, everyday repression, cultural dissonance and the death of communication in the modern world.
Such is the jaw-dropping masterpiece that is Straw Dogs.
This review of Straw Dogs (1971) was written by Paul Z on 27 Oct 2012.
Straw Dogs has generally received positive reviews.
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