“Baxter” is the story of Baxter, who is a Bull Terrier … who thinks <\/i>things, and is envious of humans, and wants to meet a human who is “like” him. He wants to be a part of the human world, he wants to understand. But those humans keep getting in the way.<\/p>\n
First impressions, favorite moments:<\/p>\n
— all of the extreme close-ups of Baxter’s face. Baxter is a bull terrier. The camera gets right up in his face. Sometimes all you see are his eyeballs. He looks so pathetic – the face is so hilarious – and the profile<\/i>. The profile was too much as he stared longingly across the street at the house of the young couple.<\/p>\n
— the VOICE of Baxter the dog. Baxter speaks in a male voice, very low and gravelly, and he sounds like he could literally go off the deep end and snap emotionally at any moment.<\/p>\n
— I loved the words of Baxter as well. He spoke in very blunt cut-and-dry terms. He was living with “the old lady” (a chaotic unhappy time in his life) and she wouldn’t let him go outside, and he became obsessed with the couple across the street. He had “unnatural thoughts”. He would sneak to the window to stare at them. Multiple shots of the profile of the dog’s face as he looks out the window, which was funnier every time I saw it. The Old Lady closes the door of her bedroom, and he can’t go in there. Here comes the voiceover:<\/p>\n
“She does things in there I’m not allowed to see. So I go to the window and imagine that I am smelling the garden.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All said in this kind of barely-psychotic voice-over voice. <\/p>\n
— I loved the shots of Baxter running like mad behind the kid’s bike (before their relationship turned sour as well). Oh, he was so happy – he was running SO HARD – with this little bow-legged run – but you know that in his heart, this is one messed-up dog, who has already killed The Old Lady and tried to kill “the creature” (the newborn baby of the couple across the street) – so his glee at running down the street is intensely disturbing.<\/p>\n
— Baxter in the damn tutu. Baxter, with that psycho male voiceover voice, in a tutu, being made to stand on his hind legs and dance.<\/p>\n
Baxter confesses that it “hurts” not to obey the command “Heel”.<\/p>\n
The indignity of it all. The indignity of being a dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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