Barking Dogs Never Bite: You're Not Your Worst
The Person vs. Persona split is a blurred line between the possibility of self and the application of self. Who we want to be and who we are aren’t as separated as we may think. It’s the call to action that lets us be that person that we so desperately want to be. Shredding the skin of our flaws and the genuinely bad things that we’ve done in, if only for a moment, catharsis and redemption for our sins. Even if not entirely devoid of self interest, we deserve grace, to not be made a monster lest we turn into one through exaggerated public perception, and start believing in it ourselves. Barking Dogs Never Bite, directed by Bong Joon-ho in his directorial debut no less; is a wry, darkly humorous, and light-hearted piece that I believe wants us to look in the mirror, both physically and metaphorically and heartily laugh with ourselves and all of the bits and bobs that make us this strange, complicated, inconsistent, and somehow top of the food chain species. Let it all out. You’re ...
