Dogs Are People Too

2024

Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 100%
IMDb Rating 4.2/10 10 37 37

animal rights justice nature

Director

Hendrik Faller Photo
Hendrik Faller

Top cast

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663.6 MB
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1 hr 12 min
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1 hr 12 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AliensReservoir 1 / 10

A Dogumentary That Barks Up the Wrong Tree

One of the most troubling aspects of Dogs Are People Too isn't its premise - it's who the film chooses to put at the center of its argument, and how uncritically it does so.Several of the interviewed dog owners are not presented as viewpoints to be examined, questioned, or contextualized. They are treated as moral authorities. And that's a serious problem, because at least a few of them appear less motivated by concern for animals than by open hostility toward humans.One interviewee in particular spends more time expressing contempt for people than advocating for dogs. Humans are described as cruel, irredeemable, unworthy of empathy - while dogs are elevated not just as companions, but as morally superior replacements. This isn't animal welfare. It's misanthropy dressed up as compassion, and the film never challenges it.A responsible documentary would pause here. It would ask difficult questions:Is love for animals healthy when it's fueled by hatred of people?Does elevating dogs require dehumanizing humans?Are these views representative, or extreme?Instead, the film nods along approvingly.By refusing to interrogate these perspectives, Dogs Are People Too quietly endorses them. The result is deeply uncomfortable: a documentary that seems less interested in improving how society treats animals, and more interested in validating a worldview where human relationships are dismissed as disposable, while dogs are recast as moral absolutes.This isn't nuanced advocacy. It's emotional absolutism.In the end, the film undermines its own cause. If the argument for better treatment of animals depends on portraying humans as inherently awful, then it's not a bridge - it's a wall. And it's one the documentary never even acknowledges, let alone examines.Dogs deserve thoughtful discussion.So do viewers.
Reviewed by AliensReservoir 1 / 10

One of the most troubling aspects of Dogs Are People Too isn't its premise - it's who the film chooses to put at the center of its argument, and how uncritically it does so.Several of the interviewed dog owners are not presented as viewpoints to be examined, questioned, or contextualized. They are treated as moral authorities. And that's a serious problem, because at least a few of them appear less motivated by concern for animals than by open hostility toward humans.One interviewee in particular spends more time expressing contempt for people than advocating for dogs. Humans are described as cruel, irredeemable, unworthy of empathy - while dogs are elevated not just as companions, but as morally superior replacements. This isn't animal welfare. It's misanthropy dressed up as compassion, and the film never challenges it.A responsible documentary would pause here. It would ask difficult questions:Is love for animals healthy when it's fueled by hatred of people?Does elevating dogs require dehumanizing humans?Are these views representative, or extreme?Instead, the film nods along approvingly.By refusing to interrogate these perspectives, Dogs Are People Too quietly endorses them. The result is deeply uncomfortable: a documentary that seems less interested in improving how society treats animals, and more interested in validating a worldview where human relationships are dismissed as disposable, while dogs are recast as moral absolutes.This isn't nuanced advocacy. It's emotional absolutism.In the end, the film undermines its own cause. If the argument for better treatment of animals depends on portraying humans as inherently awful, then it's not a bridge - it's a wall. And it's one the documentary never even acknowledges, let alone examines.Dogs deserve thoughtful discussion.So do viewers.
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