Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

11/25/1971

Runtime

116 mins

Overview

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$2,200,000

Revenue

$3,251,794

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A slow-burn descent into brutality that traces how civilized restraint collapses under sustained humiliation and violence. Deeply discomfiting and morally murky, it interrogates the thin line between victim and aggressor.

Mood

Dread-soakedTenseAngryUnsettling

Themes

IdentityClassRevenge

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Sexual violenceGraphic violence

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