Dogville - the movie

Sorry, this’ll be the last one for a while :wink:

Another one that came out a while back…

I loved this film. Such a brave thing to try. By the end of it I hardly noticed that the buildings weren’t there.

Great writing in an unusual style - very theatre.

Also, a fine ending: tragic, unhappy but satisfactory. Made one feel guilty for approving, but justice (at least in this fictional context) demanded no less.

Ah, buddhu,
Anyone that enjoyed that movie is sick and twisted!

very theatre…indeed!

disturbing little masterpiece, eh?

Loved it!

I couldn’t get past the fact that the buildings weren’t there :laughing: In fact, I ended up turing it off rather quickly. I guess I’m just not “artsy” enough for that type of thing. Nicole Kidman tends to do odd movies as of late. Portrait of a Lady (which is from a while ago) was also more “artsy” and it deviated so much from the book, that I couldn’t get through it either.

Sounds like Our Town on screen…

I’ll have to see this I think. I’m beginning to get into artsy film.
I adore the existentialism in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Ah, izzarina, I admit I came close myself early on, but this one rewards perseverence. It’s a long movie, and not popcorn entertainment, but I think it is well worth the effort it takes to get the best out of it.

Ah, you sick, twisted little space cadet… :stuck_out_tongue:

Are you sure that izz would enjoy something with that dark a statement about civilization and society?

:smiling_imp:

Enjoy? Hell no, Denny. Dogville is certainly not about enjoyment. I personally saw it as something very simple: an exercise in tripping some basic emotional reactions - anger and the emotional need for justice… It made me want that ending, even though I didn’t know that until it happened. And I was shocked at myself when I found out what kind of ending would satisfy me.

Enjoy? Good grief, no.

Kinda like you hate yourself for liking it?

Again, it is very well done!

I prefer to think of myself as a devout abstactionalist.