If this is the Luc Besson's movie no dog is killed or even harmed during the movie. At the beginning, there is only description of dog fights and keeping dogs hungry.
There are not jokes made, but a psychologist is called into the jail to figure out what the main character identified as, and is confused at first. The main character is a drag queen.
SPOILER: It is not explicitly seen, a gun goes off and removes the pinky of the main character on their left hand. The child then takes the severed finger and puts it in a plastic bag. The finger is then carried by a dog for a span of a few minutes. You later see the injured hand wrapped in a bloody kerchief.
SPOILER: It is not explicitly seen, a gun goes off and removes the pinky of the main character on their left hand. The child then takes the severed finger and puts it in a plastic bag. The finger is then carried by a dog for a span of a few minutes. You later see the injured hand wrapped in a bloody kerchief.
A childhood love interest gets in a cab while the main character watches from a second floor window. It is *implied* they do not have the opportunity to say goodbye, but not an explicit exclusion or snub.
A child is slapped and screamed at by his father at 00:09:20
At 00:11:45 the same child is grabbed, dragged and shoved into a cage with dogs by his father as his older brother and mother watches on.
SPOILER: It is not explicitly seen, a gun goes off and removes the pinky of the main character on their left hand. The child then takes the severed finger and puts it in a plastic bag. The finger is then carried by a dog for a span of a few minutes. You later see the injured hand wrapped in a bloody kerchief.
The main character talks about a dramatic childhood. But he was not directly tortured.
Spoiler:
The main character is kept in a cage outside with many dogs and is shot by his father and has not been able to walk since