Never attempt humanity and collective evil mindset [Carl Jung, 1922, 《论心理分析与诗的关系》"On the Relationship between Psychological Analysis and Poetry"]!
這是一種利用集體無思考無意識時，Dogville says almost everything that "common" people don´t like to see or analyze regarding themselves. It´s not about American society, it´s about the human weakness. I guess this movie is not about revenge, but rather about remotion of violence, and its extreme consequence- the retourn of violence in an exagerated way (cruelty). The point is not how to remove violence, but how to transform it in a contructive way before condamning-and then punishing....
Dogville is a 2003 arthouse experimental avant-garde film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan, a woman hiding from mobsters, who arrives in the small mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.
This is the saddest scene of the film :( but then it served her right, to have her kids killer before her eyes if she shed a tear. Karma's a bitch, isn't it? I was so overwhelmed when the dolls were broken - they represent the symbolic ties she had with Dogville. And Vera shattered it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzL7CEw4b9I If you can hold back your tears, I'll stop it. Title says it all. Those who haven't watched the movie yet, there are MAJOR spoilers in this clip, watch at your own risk.
This movie is brilliant because of the fact that the actors have to carry it all the way through, relying only on their own talent. There are no distractions..that's the beauty of this movie. It's so naked and honest. You can _feel_ everything. Marvelous acting! Nicole was fantastic in it. A masterpiece.
I find your pathology interesting from both a neurological and sociological point of view. Do you think it's the result of a shame-based culture, especially the ascendant culture, responding to an exponential increase in polarization in the political sphere while also facing decreasing dominance and influence in the economic field fostered by a sharp decrease in population growth and the puerile disquisitions flowing from a partially shattered psyche? Or would you say some past trauma has impinged on your cranial nerves and brain-feeding blood vessels such that your ability to constrain vacuous discourse has fragmented, giving rise to unusually intemperate and feckless ideations?
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Nicole Kidman’s performance is amazing and just so against the grain. So, against cliches. I mean, this film just trampled cliches left and right. But her performance. How stoic she is. When she is raped. When she orders the town murdered. When she kills Tom. When she first gets the chain put on. “Can I go now? I have to figure out how to get into my house. Or is that part of the punishment? Sleeping outside?” This is the one time she breaks down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRX9K0P5oW8
This era was peak Kidman, she was so stunningly gorgeous in EWS, Moulin Rouge, To Die For, and especially Dogville. I know people love to give her shit about the work she's had done since then, but she's still beautiful to this day. Not just her physical looks, but her entire aura and energy is so sexy and captivating. And she is so fearless in every role she takes on.
And as amazing as Uma Thurman was in Nymphomaniac, I still wish Kidman would have been able to play that part as originally planned. But Uma was so fucking raw and terrifying, so I can't be too disappointed.
。 也许他们需要更多的时间，也许。。。
