The film is not as scary as imagined. The main body of the film is not a display of violent spectacles, but a dialogue between the killer Jack and the mysterious elder Virgil. Many of Jack's remarks in the film are actually defending the director's perverse behavior. If you don't like the director's overly self-indulgent character, you won't like this movie. Even if it is self-indulgent, the film still explores a question worth pondering in the dialogue between the two protagonists: whether the heinous sins can nurture the darkest beauty. Von Trier watered a flower of evil in the ruins of corpses. It is both evil and deep and beautiful, but it is not the most advanced art after all. Whether he fails or not, von Trier has once again dedicated his interesting provocation and mockery to the world
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The House That Jack Built Neutral evaluation
2022-01-06 08:01
Extended Reading
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Dorothy 2022-03-27 09:01:13
Von Trier is not a revolutionary in film theory, he is just a pervert. And it's metamorphosis for metamorphosis' sake.
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Yessenia 2022-03-26 09:01:09
If sexuality is fishing, then murder is art. Although he is ignorant of many art categories, he can feel the hellish imagination brought by Lars von Trier's brutality and bloody anti-humanity.
The House That Jack Built quotes
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Verge: Why are they always so stupid?
Jack: Who's stupid?
Verge: All the women you killed, strike me as seriously unintelligent.
Jack: I've also killed men.
Verge: But you only talk about the stupid women. Unless you think all women are stupid.
Jack: Well, the stories I've told were selected at random, but...
Verge: You feel superior to women and want to brag. It turns you on, doesn't it Jack?
Jack: No, no. But women are easier, not physically, they're just easier to work with. More cooperative.
Verge: To kill, you mean?
Jack: If you like. Mr. Sophistication believes in that theory.
Verge: So... Mr. Sophistication is the theoretician?
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Jack: Verge?
Verge: I'm here, Jack.
[pause]
Jack: I don't feel so good Verge. There's a sour taste in my mouth.
Verge: You want me to show you the way to the next whisky bar?