The House That Jack Built Neutral evaluation

2022-01-06 08:01
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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  • Asa 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Maniac+Bergman - presents the spiritual world of an isolated perverted killer, focusing on the motive for murder brought out by psychosexual abnormalities and murderous mania, many victims are seen as violent or erotic, without blinking or flinching, Violent attacks are intimate and brutal. It ends with the complete inability of the authorities to eliminate the killer and the Bergman-esque tone, overturning previous narrative conventions.

  • Melba 2022-03-24 09:02:39

    "Art has no moral boundaries", "Negative film reveals the darkest places of light". ps is far from shocking, and the overall surprise is also lacking.

The House That Jack Built quotes

  • Jack: Albert Speer invented "The Theory of Ruin Value" by examining the Greek and Roman ruins, and constructed his buildings using both weaker and stronger materials so that they, in a thousand years, would appear as aesthetically perfect ruins.

    Verge: Which fortunately were smashed to atoms in mere few years after their construction. Hubris is punished by nemesis if I may use an old-fashioned expression.

    Jack: But an artist must be cynical and not worry about the welfare of humans or Gods in his art. This talks about the value of ruins makes it too obvious, not to mention, another subject. The value of icons.

    [pause]

    Jack: The Stuka. Without a doubt the world's most beautiful airplane and to top it off featuring an eerily sophisticated detail. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

    Verge: No, by God that has never interested me but do tell me about it.

    Jack: The Stuka was a dive-bomber. They say that the pilots actually passed out for a brief moment during the actual dive.

    Verge: But the detail, per favore.

    Jack: Fantastic. Incomparable. Notice the sound when the plane dives.

    Verge: The screeching sound. A result of poor design if you ask me.

    Jack: Poor design? Please. On the contrary, the screeching was intrinsic sirens were attached to the undercarriage of the plane purposely designed as a psychological act of war. No one who heard it in action will ever forget that sound. It made the blood run cold in everyone's veins. Know as Jericho's Trumpet.

    Verge: Sadistic, but in your eyes probably a masterpiece.

    Jack: No, more than a masterpiece. An icon. The person or persons, who conceived the Stuka and its functions were icon-creators. What I'm getting at is this: As disinclined as the world is to acknowledge the beauty of decay it's just as disinclined to give credit to those... no, credit to us, who create the real icons of this planet. We are deemed the ultimate evil. All the icons that have had and always will have an impact in the world are for me extravagant art.

    [pause]

    Jack: The noble rot.

    Verge: STOP IT... YOU ANTICHRIST! I DON'T RECALL EVER HAVING ESCORTED A SO THOROUGHLY DEPRAVED PERSON AS YOU, JACK. Since you have now apparently set your heart in mass extermination let me make a brief comment about the Buchenwald camp that emphasises my attitude towards art and love.

    [pause]

    Verge: In the middle of this concentration camp stood a tree and not just any old tree, but an oak and not just any oak, but the one Goethe when he was young, sat beneath and wrote some of humanity's most important works. Goethe. Here you can talk about masterpieces and the value of icons! The personification of humanism, dignity, culture and goodness was by the irony of faith suddenly present in the middle of one of the all time greatest crimes against humanity.

  • 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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