Symbolism with the Dog?
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susanleslie2 — 12 years ago(June 18, 2013 12:56 PM)
I took the very last scene as a literal re-enactment of Rogers's day:
He knows where the bodies are buried because he had a major role that day in burying them.
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cenan-gumus — 12 years ago(November 15, 2013 12:07 AM)
I think the dog is a metaphor for markets. And the tumor growing in her represents leveraged products. We hear that the dog is very ill the day before the fire sale and Sam burries the dog at the end of the movie.
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db-155 — 12 years ago(December 20, 2013 05:13 AM)
To me the dog motif can be seen most clearly as a repetition of the Lurie character's work with dogs in J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace", a Booker Prize winner I am sure the scriptwriter would have read. But even if they hadn't there is a long history of animals being a way to stage a human character's ethics outside the political dimensions of the plot.
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Bree_33 — 11 years ago(September 24, 2014 03:00 PM)
A very insightful thread, thanks guys!
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JeffAtlanta2004 — 11 years ago(April 02, 2015 10:07 AM)
This is one of those situations where a cigar is just a cigar.
It's a huge stretch to say that the use of the dog was symbolism. Sam was just a miserable soul and the unconditional love of his dog made it his only friend.
