The ultimate speechless experience

Florencio 2022-04-19 09:02:28

I have seen too many tragic dramas, but this is the one that I feel has the strongest physical and psychological reaction. Bai's killing, the bloody art, the philosophical dialogue, and the interludes of the Divine Comedy, the whole play made the audience's nerves tense to the extreme, challenging the visual experience to the extreme. The extreme publicity and show, especially the background music of the Divine Comedy interspersed, makes people have a very contradictory experience. I saw someone describe the experience of going to the theater in this way: "Less than half of the elderly couple left, and soon after a man left and gave the middle finger to the screen, (I don't know how many left) I really can't bear it. I sat on the ticket for two and a half hours, like sitting on pins and needles. I felt physically uncomfortable all over my body and I felt sick. After finishing it, I ran away, because I felt that at least half of the group behind me were lunatics. I can see some of the director's thoughts. , but I really don't have the slightest interest in thinking about it. This film has completely crossed my limit. Lars von Trier is a lunatic, and I believe if you tell me he is a serial killer." Should I Thankfully I watched it on the computer, otherwise I would have felt that Jack finally walked slowly into the house made of frozen corpses and found a hole in the floor, Virgil was calling him, and my soul was also when he got in. Follow them across the Styx and reach hell.

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Extended Reading
  • Sedrick 2022-01-06 08:01:27

    The director filmed a splendid 12 years of a perverted serial killer criminal career. He used the killer's perspective and unscrupulously challenged the audience's bottom line with images. However, for the audience who came prepared, his evil tastes were nothing. The film is a continuation of [female addicts] in creation. The style is like a staged retrospective of masterpieces. A large number of dialogues are mixed with various philosophical theories, interspersed with 5 murder accidents of the killer. The killer cured the compulsion through killing. However, it did not make his soul noble. The director was still not seeded, not Nazi enough, and his protagonist finally fell into the deepest place of hell. The film is relatively poor in Lars von Trier’s own work, or mediocre, not as good as [female addicts]. If there is anything interesting about this movie, it is that the director is playing a moral game with the audience, letting the audience see him killing from the perspective of a perverted killer, disagreeing with him, and worrying that he will be caught by the police. The typified narrative technique is used to tease the audience. There are so many such techniques that make the film deliberately sensational.

  • Johann 2022-03-24 09:02:39

    ① The technique is almost extended from "Female Addict", but he created Satan's "Divine Comedy". It is not that Jack travels around hell and cannot enter heaven because he did not create a new Beatrice, but when he broke the duck's leg for the first time It has already been strangled, and the heaven is presented as a childhood appearance; ② The house serves as a shelter to protect human beings from exposure to the original universe, and building a house corresponds to survival, but Jack does not like constructive creation and instead advocates the aesthetics of ruins, preaching "expensiveness". "Corruption" is another devastating creation, denying Weegee's view that "you feel superior to others" and "you are objectifying human beings", seeing human beings as raw materials of art with a will, and being fundamentally different from Nazism ( Maybe it’s a high-sounding pretense); ③ Bad tastes (cleaning obsessive-compulsive disorder, breast purses, dragging a corpse in a trailer that resembles Kim Ki-duk’s “Saint”, etc.) is clearly dispelling seriousness, but it can be accompanied by accurate performance of bloody violence without ambiguity, Adding tension to the images also blurs the director's position. Those flashbacks to previous works cannot be identified as self-reflection or narcissism. Jack Kuxiao under the red cloak is a devil rather than a human being. This is not a demonstration of the evil of human nature.

The House That Jack Built quotes

  • Lady 1: You know, I take it all back, what I said earlier about you looking like a serial killer. No, no, no, you don't have the disposition for that sort of thing. You're way too much of a wimp to murder anyone.

  • Jack: Imagine a man walking down a street underneath the street lamps. Right under a lamp, is shadow is the densest but also the tiniest. Then, when he starts to move, his shadow grows in front of him. The shadow becomes bigger and bigger while it thins out. And the shadow behind him from the next lamp post emerges and becomes shorter and shorter until it reaches its ultimate density, as the man stands directly underneath the light. Let's say that the man standing underneath the first lamp post is me when I've just committed a murder. I feel strong and content. I start to walk, and the shadow in front of me grows bigger, like my pleasure. But at the same time, pain is on its way, represented by the shadow behind me from the next lamp post. And at the midpoint between the lamp posts, the pain is so great it outweighs my pleasure. And with every step forward, pleasure dissolves and pain intensifies behind me. Finally, the pain is so unbearably intense that I have to act. So when I reach the point with the next lamp in zenith, I will kill again.

    Verge: I know you want to be someone special, Jack, but let's face it, this illustration can be used for any addict's tale of woe. The alcoholic empties the bottle at the zenith etc, etc. But what about the family?