The use of sound throughout is one of the things I loved most about this film, the children rarely engage in traditional conversation of any kind and so dialogue is rare. In an incredibly beautiful and creative way, long moments of complete silence remove the usual effect of pausing for contemplation and instead this is replaced by a feeling of increased suffocation and claustrophobia.
In its warped and twisted way this film washes over you with its incredible beauty and minimal use of sound and lulls you into a false sense of security, at which point it batters you with ideas and concepts.
by Charlotte (film junk), for “Dogtooth”