The Last Dogs of Winter

This movie is primal. It brings out instinct to want to help the dogs. Perhaps the dogs are symbolic for a Canadian nation that treated their own like savages. Perhaps the dogs on chains means that as a universal peoples were are all part of systems designed by another to control even our basic instincts. This movie seems shallow but it is not in the words that the story is told but in the images of the desolation, suffering and despair of the dogs. I recall an image where the two dogs were very close to each other but could not touch each other. Is it better to try to protect a species by using unnatural coercion versus allowing nature to take her course? Would it not be better to allow these dogs to be in a sanctuary cordoned off to run free and wild and be themselves? Is the protagonist in this story actually the antagonist? After watching this movie I felt a sense of distance. A sense of distance from the dogs because of their chains. I could not love them because they looked like angry inmates screaming to be set free. The owner of the dogs has an obsessive nature and to me it has compounded his judgement to do the exact opposite of what he wants for those dogs, namely free them and help them.