I hate directors who take themselves way too seriously and think their art is going to save mankind. And apparently that’s what Lars von Trier is doing for us, saving us from seeing good shit. I have no problems with shock or sex, but I think it needs to have a purpose and from what I hear about this one, this has no purpose. Think The Brown Bunny.
Literally this is what the director dude said about this film.
“I never have a choice,” von Trier said Monday. “It’s the hand of God, I’m afraid. “And,” he added, “I am the best film director in the world.”
According to Fandago, some audience members recoiled at the film’s relentless tension and almost unbearably explicit scenes of violence, including genital mutilation.
“I thought I had my head down a lavatory, frankly,” said Baz Bamigboye of Britain’s Daily Mail, the journalist who asked von Trier to justify his film.
“I’ve defended his movies in the past,” Bamigboye said after the news conference. “‘Dogville’ was hated. I defended his right to make that film, and I defend his right to make this film. But he still has to explain why he made it and what it represents.”
Trade magazine Variety said in a review that “most of the director’s usual fans will find this outing risible, off-putting or both.” The Hollywood Reporter was more positive, recommending the film to von Trier fans and calling it “visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas.”
Well one thing this has managed to do is make me reallywant to see it.
