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.
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.
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.
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.
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