11-13-2009, 02:01 PM
<!--quoteo(post=68905:date=Nov 13 2009, 11:16 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Nov 13 2009, 11:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->I never saw "Dogville" but I've heard that the woman in that gets put through the ringer as well.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
He's a total misogynist. I can't remember the name of his first movie, but I do remember the female lead shouting, "FUCK THE DEVIL OUT OF ME!" many times. The theme was clearly that women are evil and only a man's penis can save them. Or something.
In Dogville, Nicole Kidman essentially gets raped by an entire village.
I don't think I've liked any of his movies (except Dancer in the Dark -- and even that one was pretty misogynistic), but for some reason I keep watching them. After Antichrist, I think I might be done with Von Trier.
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Europa (sometimes called Zentropa) was pretty good, I thought, as far as Von Trier's tamer films are concerned. It reminded me a lot of one of my favorite classic movies, The Third Man, for whatever reason.
He's a total misogynist. I can't remember the name of his first movie, but I do remember the female lead shouting, "FUCK THE DEVIL OUT OF ME!" many times. The theme was clearly that women are evil and only a man's penis can save them. Or something.
In Dogville, Nicole Kidman essentially gets raped by an entire village.
I don't think I've liked any of his movies (except Dancer in the Dark -- and even that one was pretty misogynistic), but for some reason I keep watching them. After Antichrist, I think I might be done with Von Trier.
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Europa (sometimes called Zentropa) was pretty good, I thought, as far as Von Trier's tamer films are concerned. It reminded me a lot of one of my favorite classic movies, The Third Man, for whatever reason.