Title: Straw Dogs
Year: 1971
Genre: Thriller, drama
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan
American astrophysicist David Sumner and his British wife, Amy, move to the English countryside to escape the hustle and bustle of urban America. There, however, an unpleasant surprise awaits them, as the seemingly peaceful English countryside will reveal an unexpectedly violent side that will awaken their survival instinct.
A truly great film by Sam Peckinpah, a hallmark of 1970s cinema, a landmark in the genre of revenge films that later became the model for South Korean cinema. Brilliant editing and a scathing screenplay that exposes the small, superficially peaceful communities that hide deep, violent secrets. These films come, like Nemesis, to exorcise deeply rooted beliefs, to overturn stereotypes of social structures and different eras, and to prove that human beings, beyond their origins and appearances, is possessed, across all latitudes, by the same insatiable thirst for domination and the same propensity toward violence, even if from different starting points.
