There’s a number of reasons I figured I wouldn’t like this film. An overly present narrator, minimalist theater production design, arbitrary chapter headings that remind the viewer exactly how much more they’ll be forced to sit through, literally everything about his previous film Dancer in the Dark (minus Bjork ily). And three hours later, I actually disliked this movie for those reasons and more!
Melancholia aside, I do believe Lars to be our art house incel. His provocations are substance-less and amount to little more than positing that humans suck. The art house equivalent of a teenager’s edgelord manifesto declaring everyone else to be an unfixable problem. Humanity will always reveal themselves as evil animals type beat. And more often than not, Lars’ modus operandi is abusing women on and off camera. That and half-heartedly committing to constraints on his filmmaking that he’s just as quick to abandon when inconvenient as he is to shallowly conceive of in the first place.
Nicole you are exempt from this you were amazing as always. Points for the venom with which Lars writes and directs Paul as a pathetic would be writer and philosopher. Chloe you will always be famous.
There’s a number of reasons I figured I wouldn’t like this film. An overly present narrator, minimalist theater production design, arbitrary chapter headings that remind the viewer exactly how much more they’ll be forced to sit through, literally everything about his previous film Dancer in the Dark (minus Bjork ily). And three hours later, I actually disliked this movie for those reasons and more!
Melancholia aside, I do believe Lars to be our art house incel. His provocations are substance-less and amount to little more than positing that humans suck. The art house equivalent of a teenager’s edgelord manifesto declaring everyone else to be an unfixable problem. Humanity will always reveal themselves as evil animals type beat. And more often than not, Lars’ modus operandi is abusing women on and off camera. That and half-heartedly committing to constraints on his filmmaking that he’s just as quick to abandon when inconvenient as he is to shallowly conceive of in the first place.
Nicole you are exempt from this you were amazing as always. Points for the venom with which Lars writes and directs Paul as a pathetic would be writer and philosopher. Chloe you will always be famous.
