Begleiter treads into the realm of the comically absurd, something that I am quite fond of. I love strange, odd situations that appear seemingly out of the blue, and this film, unlike many films I have reviewed made by independent filmmakers, at least has an interesting and randomly awesome conceptualization. A dog loses his owner, we see into its thoughts, the dog turns into a human, and rejoins its newfound master.

In the end, novelty of concept can’t sell a film, that’s why I rated this at about average. The concept is novel, but there isn’t much time spent developing the characters involved. Their motivations are fairly common and paper thin, there are many clichés outside of the dog’s direct interactions, and in the end there is a definite lack of finality as to what happens, which is supposed to be made up for by the amusing end, but it makes the show come off a bit like an art film as opposed to the fun, legitimate awesomeness it seemed headed for. It felt like a teeth-cutting film, but a good one.

Like the horse racing pamphlets would say, “Worth a look.” I’m interested to see what else Dan can come up with.

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