Ethan (Ethan Eng) and Justin (Justin Morrice) are two seniors in a high school in Mississauga, Ontario, not far from Toronto. They wanted to produce a senior film that would portray them and their classmates in the best possible light, so they decided to do double duty as subjects and filmmakers. Therapy Dogs is a charming, chaotic, and innovative do-it-yourself film about young people on a quest for authenticity. It was made using guerrilla filming tactics, and the filmmakers had unparalleled access to the school and students under the premise of creating a senior film. The movie combines observational and fictional elements to disrupt expectations about male friendship and adolescence in their latter stages. While “Therapy Dogs” is (largely) chronological in its organisation, the story is told in a way that isn’t quite sequential. The film’s intuitive shifts between truth and fiction are propelled by its own emotional and artistic links.
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Many topics, including male friendship, growing up, and loss, are introduced. Mini-short films created by different pupils, ranging from upbeat to melancholy, make up “Therapy Dogs,” a video that seems to be influenced by the ups and downs of the last school year. The film’s feeling of playfulness and emotional range is enhanced by the use of a wide array of cameras, from cell phones and GoPros to various hand-held cameras and a more professional URSA Mini Pro. Male adolescence, with its tentative first steps into the murky waters of violence, is shown in several of the film’s moments with all their ferocity. The two main male characters in our story take turns pounding lockers to see if they can make a dent in them. They fight bare-chested in a parking lot, acting out a mock cage match by bouncing their strikes off the green walls of a cart shelter. During one scene, a young man costumed as Wolverine races through the school corridors, filled with joy and fake wrath.
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Nonetheless, even the film’s bloodiest scene is very nonviolent. After their cage match in the parking lot, the two men sit down and have a serious conversation about life. They’ve shown their brotherly affection by trading clothes, and a camera set up low to the ground records their candid conversation about brotherhood. With “If I don’t even see you after tonight, I won’t care,” Ethan struggles to find the words to express the depth of his sentiments for his friendship with Justin. However, Justin misinterprets Ethan’s gesture and terminates the sequence by kicking the camera across the street. Here is where the film’s tone and drive begin to change as the guys begin to drift apart.
The film uses resourceful approaches to overcome limitations in its pursuit of depicting the last years of youth. Ethan uses a false ID to enter a strip joint and asks a stripper to the prom. As the filmmakers obviously couldn’t sneak a camera inside the club, they instead used audio recordings of his discussions with the ladies who tease and advise him, superimposed on warped scenes from the computer game Grand Theft Auto V. The scene, like the rest of the movie, veers towards sentimentality rather than controversy.
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But compared to other films about teenagers, like Larry Clark’s “Kids,” “Therapy Dogs” never feels exploitative or nasty, even when it’s at its most down-and-dirty. Humanism and closeness to the topic evoke feelings of affection rather than detachment in the observer. Calling “Therapy Dogs” a little film feels condescending, but it’s a fair description. It’s a teen flick backed by up-and-coming Canadian actors Matthew Miller (“The Dirties”) and Matt Johnson (“Blackberry,” due out soon). Its guerilla-style production is matched by a vivid montage technique, which transforms the raw video footage of skaters and seniors into something cohesive and relevant for a wider audience. Ethan Eng, the filmmaker, has a promising future despite being just 20 years old. Like Richard Linklater’s “Slacker,” his picture “Therapy Dogs” has a distinct and moving vision that captures the characters and atmosphere of a specific time and place.
It’s now showing in cinemas.