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Inja	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Inja ("Dog") is a 2002 short film (14 minutes) by Steven Pasvolsky from Australia.The film is set in South Africa. At some date shortly before the end of apartheid in 1994, a Xhosa boy named Thembile, who looks to be about 12, lives on a white Afrikaner's plantation. Thembile has befriended a young puppy. The boy and the puppy become best friends—until Johannes, the plantation owner, intervenes. Johannes makes Thembile stuff the dog in a bag. Johannes kicks the dog repeatedly. Then he makes Thembile open the bag. The idea seems to be to train the dog to hate and fear black people.Skip forward to after the end of apartheid (as demonstrated by the new flag). Nelson Mandela may be president but Johannes is still the owner of the plantation. Thembile has grown to adulthood and works for Johannes; the dog, now grown quite large, does in fact bark and growl at black people. One day Johannes and Thembile go out to mend a fence, taking the dog along. Then something unexpected happens.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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Inja / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
Inja / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy and His X: A boy and his dog, and how the master cruelly takes the dog away and turns it against him.
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Inja / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Inja / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Maybe. Probably. At the end of the film, Johannes, writhing in pain on the ground, tells Thembile to shoot the dog so Thembile can give Johannes his heart medication. We see Thembile looking indecisively at the hostile, snarling face of the dog that once loved him. We hear a gunshot on the soundtrack, but we do not see Thembile shoot the dog; instead, the film ends.
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Inja / int_34dcfc96	type	KickTheDog
Inja / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Literally, as Johannes viciously kicks the dog to train it to hate blacks.
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Inja / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Inja / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Johannes has a heart attack while he and Thembile are out mending the fence. Johannes's cruelty to the dog then bites him in the ass when Thembile attempts to bring him medicine, but can't approach him, because the dog growls and bares his teeth.
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Inja / int_ebec7ff5	type	Death by Racism
Inja / int_ebec7ff5	comment	Death by Racism: If Johannes did die of his heart attack, it would be this trope, as his cruelty in taking the dog and turning into an attack dog that hates black people led to his death. The film ends before we find out if he survived his heart attack.
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