Barking Dogs Never Bite
- Lee Sung -jae: Yun -ju
- Bae Du -na: Hyeon -nam
Dogs that bark do not bite ( Original title: 플란다스 의 개 ) is the title of a comedy of Korean director Bong Joon -ho.
Action
Yoon -ju (Lee Sung -jae ) is an unemployed professor who is at home under the thumb of his hard-working and very pregnant woman. The couple live in a uniform, modern high-rise apartment house on the outskirts of Seoul. His personal problems joins in the neighborhood incessantly barking dog that drives him almost to madness. He decides to leave to kidnap and disappear the barker. Since he does not bring it in the end have the heart to kill the dog, he includes it in a closet in the basement. Later he learns through a search poster, that the dog can not bark, he has taken the wrong. When he looks after him, the caretaker has already slaughtered him.
Later, he is annoyed again, this time by another dog. He also kidnapped them. In the same residential complex lives, the young Hyun Nam ( Bae Du -na ), who works in a neighborhood office, enter into, among others, the ads on missing dogs. Otherwise, her life is pretty blank and consists of smoking, drinking and is to spy on people with binoculars. By chance, they observed Yoon -ju with the dog on the roof of the neighboring house. He hesitates at first, then he throws him off the roof. Heroic they want to bring the perpetrators to from now on route, and dreams of act thanks to their heroic act on television.
From the two opponents, both failures in life, the intricacies of the film eventually become something like friends over. Oddities such as a Korean dog soup, the terrible phantom "Boiler Kim " and 100 m toilet paper enrich the plot. Besides there are some socially critical allusions, for example to bribes in education.
Reception
The film Barking Dogs Never Bite became a cinematic breakthrough for the young actress Bae Doo -na ( known to the Korean audience already from television dramas ). Also for the former short film director Bong Joon-ho his first feature-length film was a success, which received much positive response to international festivals.