Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Is a Brilliant Study of Propaganda

Keya Shirali
5 min readMar 28, 2020
Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs (2018) [Image sourced from IMDb]

Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs (2018) is a stop-motion-animated film set in the futuristic, fictional city of Megasaki based in Japan. It follows the story of an exiled set of dogs that are accompanied by a young boy named Atari into a journey towards their release from Trash Island back home. They must undo the propagandist notions disseminated by the power-abusing political party…

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Keya Shirali

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