Dogs, Dawgs and Douches

Title: Victory to the Underdog

Director: Brandon Bond

Documenatry

It’s always nice taking a dog from an animal shelter. It makes you feel like you’ve saved the life of another living creature, which contribute to the warm fuzzy feeling in your belly. Seeing the eyes of some poor, lonely, often abused animal on death row evokes a certain amount of compassion in most people’s hearts. Taking them to a warm home where they can essentially have another chance at life and raising them to be good animals would certainly count as a good deed for the day. Making a movie about how much of a great person you are for helping the animal is significantly less awesome.

Vicktory to the Underdog is about Brandon Bond, a famous tattoo artist who rehabilitates some of the American Pit bulls that were used for dog fighting. The documentary tells us about how Michael Vick, an American Football star was caught with an illegal dog-fighting ring. We are then introduced to Brandon Bond, a total douche, who does tattoos. Bond tells us how rough his younger years and what a badass he supposedly was, it’s really not moving at all. He says society demonises tattoo artists and Pit bulls alike, and that is why he can relate to them. Cute.

That is not the only comparison though, in fact Victory to the Underdog is filled with metaphors, each more suitable then the last. Bond likens the preference of certain dog breeds to racism. It really is terrible that dogs are dehumanised in that way. Dogs aren’t people Brandon, that’s also why I don’t think your comparison to the way that society treats Pit bulls can be compared to Nazi Germany. I actually found that one pretty offensive.

On a serious note I think Brandon Bond is probably the biggest douche in the world. I have never seen anybody in my life that thinks that he is more of a hero than him. At one point in the film he even says, “I’m the good guy. I’m not used to being the good guy” he then speaks about how he was such a rebel and continues “it’s uncomfortable for me, but a nice change”. What Bond does is a good thing, but the nature of charity and doing the good deeds is that you aren’t supposed to tell people. When you go around telling people about your amazing heroism it loses it’s value.

But don’t get me wrong, it’s not all bad, the dogs are really cool. I’m not even a dog person and I left the theatre desperately wanting to visit the SPCA and pick up some poor homeless pooch.

Sadly, I don’t really have much to say. It’s filled with adorable quotations that make chapters and it has badass music, unfortunately Brandon Bond’s egotistic nature casts a shadow on all that is good.

Don’t rush to see it, but if you love dogs and want to watch a film that will use the money you spent towards charity then go for it.

4 Hoers

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