Whether it's the characters, music, dialogue, and plot development, the film uses all the traditional Hollywood film noir techniques, and even the colors are adjusted to a black and white image style. However, Trier also made some innovations in the image, that is, the whole film is mostly black and white, but some scenes and characters are used in color. This is the film's main contribution to the art of cinema, producing unexpected shocking effects in the strong color contrast. This method was successfully experimented by Trier in "Europa", and then it has a tendency to carry forward
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In this bold tones and novel film language, Thiel presents fans with a bizarre "European Ukiyo-e". Although the film has dizzying shortcomings in form, this magical realism method does fully reflect the theme of "Europe in troubled times" that the director wants to show. From this point of view, the film's form and The theme achieves complete unity. Moreover, von Trier also arranged a large number of different remarks in the film, allowing idealists to see the vanity and indifference of ideals
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