What if a guy’s best friend isn’t really a dog, but a man in a dog suit? Directed by Viljar Bøe, Good Boy is a psychological thriller Norwegian movie released on the 1st of June, 2022.
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The Plot
Sigrid is a graduating student struggling with her studies, a student with big dreams until Christian Iversen shows up, a handsome and polite guy. They hit off in a dating app. He seems like the perfect guy – a charming multimillionaire heir, he was everything she wanted.
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They spent the night after their first date. And the next morning, she meets his “dog”. A man named Frank dressed in a dog costume, crawling on the floor and eating from a bowl. He's quiet and well behaved, everything a dog is.
I swear I lost my sense of comfort. There are no jump scares, no monsters, just some scenes and behavior that gets more disturbing as the movie goes on.
Sigrid did ask about it. And Christian tells her that Frank has always been like that. He chose to be a dog because he had no friends and was lonely while growing up. And ‘He’ simply accepted that, and gave him a home.
Now Sigrid sees this, but still went on being with him because he was a millionaire heir. I was like, “You saw that, right? And you’re still okay with it?”
But what if Frank didn’t choose that life, but was groomed into it? The horror lies in how believable Christian makes it all sound.
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My Thoughts
The ending wasn’t as I expected. The scenes were disturbing and Christian was creepier. I watched because the trailer made it look dark and twisted in a way.
I have to say, there is nothing scary about the movie, not really the horror I expected. I actually thought the dog was the villain in the story. While some people might find it disturbing, although it was but it was just there.