Review of Lawn Dogs

A film of tenderness and human understanding, set against a cruel, vapid American suburban existence. This film is more metaphoric than literal. Anyone suggesting that a daily relationship between a ten year old girl and a young adult male is a real, acceptable occurrence misses the point, and the film's purpose, and the film maker's "weltanschauung". That said, what you do have here is a story about two displaced and misunderstood soul that find comfort and meaning, despite the harshness and rejection of soon to be millennial America. The moral just may be that if the false reality you're in is too unacceptable, make one of your own, even if it's unconventional. Just as long as it's genuine and authentic.