George Washington. David Gordon Green, 2000.😿😿
Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #152, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: General cruelty toward animals
Details:
1) A show-off recounts the cruel killing of a cat, 15:35-16:00.
2) Image of a dying snake, mangled by construction equipment, 40:40-40:43.
3) Discussion of murdering dogs, 1:10:00-1:12:24, with the boy wearing a hat made from the skin of his poor dog, 1:13:25 through the end of the film.
Great. Another manipulative empathy film ’bout poor folks just tryin’ to get by, with the clear message that pointless cruelty to animals is an important part of living in poverty. Our hero (literally, a self-anointed ‘hero’ as you will see after watching the film) starts out behaving neutrally enough toward animals, but learns from his worthless uncle that there are a million reasons to be a worser man. Pick one, damn it, and put on that dog-skin cap!
George Washington is a dumbed-down version of Ratcatcher in many ways.