This movie left a mixture of tastes in my mouth. Personally I judge what a good movie is by asking myself if it is a movie I would pay to watch for two hours. This movie is not something I would consider good or even tasteful for its overly dramatic exposition of a White Dog viciously attacking black people. But this movie should not entirely be dismissed for audiences inability to digest racist embodied by a white dog. Watching this movie for the first time, I did not think that the title White Dog had anything to do with racism. I'm glad Sam Fuller expresses his view on racism where more filmmakers are no where to be found. Yes, we all know racism is bad, but Fuller personifies people's racist behavior into a dog who finds his way into a young actress's life after getting hit by said woman's car. The dog is rushed to a vet and given treatment to its wounds. The night of the dog staying at the woman's house, a Hispanic burglar breaks in and begins assaulting her. The dog rescues her and chases the man our through the window and into the back yard. The police come and take the man away. The next day, the dog escapes due to his curious interest in a dark brown bunny rabbit. The young actress looks for hours where the dog might have wondered off to. The following scene is at night time with an African American driving a street-sweeper down the road. The dog viciously attacks the man, who immediately afterward crashes into a strip mall. At this moment I still have the naive assumption that the dog is frightened and lost and acted on instinct. The most shocking thing I found the actress's oblivious expression to her dog returning home covered in blood. Later, the actress takes her dog along with her to shoot a scene to a movie she is acting in and the movie became as clear to me as it did to her: the dog is a White Dog.... meaning racist. The scene is arranged with the protagonist and a similar woman who happens to be African American. The dog leaps into the shot and proceeds to bite the crap out of her shoulder. Watching this movie, I couldn't help but think Fuller dwells on people's inability to do what is right when it is needed. After two African Americans get brutally attacked, our protagonist finally decides to seek help. This is not due to her intelligence, but her pity for poor dog. Fuller is quick to make sure our protagonist absolutely wants to keep this dog alive to cause as much possible pain to all the African Americans in this movie. She takes the dog to an animal trainer for Hollywood movies to see if she can UN-do what has been done to this dog. Again, she is determined to avoid everyone's advice, including the animal trainer's, to kill the dog. Beyond unbelievable, unforeseeable and unfortunate events, the dog escapes from the trainers cage to kill another African American in a church no less. At this point in the movie, character's roles switch. The protagonist wants to put the dog down, but the damn animal trainer is determined that he can recondition the dog to become a living example that his method works. So three African Americans were brutally attacked that didn't deserve it and one killed, AND no consequences followed. Even a police officer confronts the trainer and he fails to mention they are holding a wild dog who just killed a man. I should mention that the trainer's motivation is based upon his own skin color: black. He is so determined to prove the system wrong that he will neglect the death of a man to prove to the world that a black man cured a white dog. What seems like months that go by, the animal trainer finally gains the dogs trust and obedience to the point that the dog realizes that his owner was bad, and anyone who looks like his former owner must die. Fortunately for the dog and the plot of the story, the animal trainer's friend bares a great resemblance to the supposed owner that we are introduced to at the end of the film, justifying why the animal trainer finally decided to kill the damn dog. The film explores the idea of racism due to our conditioning and social construct. I want to believe that, but I can't help feel that this theory falls flat. If we were asked to follow the blame trail all the way up to the people who started hating people, we would be considered racist. People find racist thing to say and think from the people they are being racist towards. No one can claim that Hispanics are lazy or always late unless it happens enough to develop into a stereotype. I don't want to believe that humans do this on purpose but we do naturally. Any time we learn something or try and commit information to memory, we create categories to put said information. If we have a good or bad experience from someone or a group of people, we quickly, but naively, learn that all people of that group share that quality. That is my main complaint with this film; it didn't try to solve the problem it set out to solve.