Posted on 09/23/2005 10:28:57 AM PDT by opticoax
| Dear Wendy Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
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Son of a dead miner in a dying coal town, Dick (Jamie Bell) is a sensitive kid out of place in Estherslope, a dusty burg shakily conjured from von Trier's most weather-beaten tintype fantasies—Dogville with decor. Unionizing his fellow misfits, Dick forms the Dandies, a gang of pacifist gun nuts. Bunking in a disused works where the Zombies play forever, the Dandies name and master their firearms and even go so far as to marry these antique "partners" (the epistolary romance implied in the title plays out between Dick and his pearl-handled missus).
Especially in the climactic, clumsily staged gunfight, the prevailing mode is wide-eyed idiocy—which might be the point, since von Trier's satirical target is the hypocrisy of (news flash!) America's eagerness to enforce stability and security with all guns blazing.
As the current president once put it in a slightly different context, "This war is really about peace."
"Lars von Trier is openly hostile towards the American government and has been accused of anti-Americanism. His disgust with the current administration has never been a secret, even though he has never visited the USA and probably never will, due to his travelling phobia. von Trier has noted that, thanks to the global reach of American culture, economy and military, he knows far more about America than the creators of Casablanca did about Morocco. "
Never been to the USA, a Commie, and a basket case...and and idol of the American Left. 'Nuff Said.
I find it amusing if not sickening that someone who refuses to even visit the United States takes it upon himself to be an expert on the subject and portray our supposed evil nature and trash us over in Cannes and Europe generally. And I'm sure the Europeans just lap up this hate-filled bile.
Sounds like a Robert Redford movie. Just the type of movie to be played on Sundance or Independent Film Channel.
His movies about America seem to all be based on Herzog's Stroszek, an anti-American, anti-capitalist movie partially shot on location in rural Wisconsin in 1977.
His view of America is incredibly stereotypical and bizarre, revolving around the notion that Americans are simultaneously brutal and stupid, yet also somehow brilliant at finding ways to deceive people and make money.
His films aren't simply the usual blatantly hamhanded propaganda pieces by sissy Euros (like Parker's ridiculous Mississippi Burning) - they are extremely bizarre.
Unlike the others, he eschews realism as well as reality.
I've known Von Trier was way left forever and a day but I am dissapointed that Vinterberg would direct this. His picture "The Celebration" was among the best I saw in the 90's, very powerful.
Oh well... just sit back and sigh I guess. I think most artists are lefties.
"I find it amusing if not sickening that someone who refuses to even visit the United States takes it upon himself to be an expert on the subject and portray our supposed evil nature and trash us over in Cannes and Europe generally."
"Racists" are disgusting and by definition ignorant. This is the kind of person who would be loading people into boxcars in another era.
Is there anybody eating pudding in it?
Three hours I'll never get back.
Lauren Bacall should have won an Oscar for "Most Repulsive Coda To An Otherwise Illustrious Career."
Interesting facts about Von Trier...there is no aristocratic prefix in Danish. His name is Lars Trier and he added the Von to make himself sound more imporant.
Pathetic.
He must hold the record for number of actors who have vowed never to work with him again because of the way he treats people on a film set. (Nicole Kidman, James Caan, Emily Watson).
That I've heard. Bjork has apparently said she'd applaud his demise.
He's a sweet guy in general - when his first wife was seven months pregnant with his second child he abandoned her to run off with their first child's teenage babysitter.
The guy's on a moral level only slightly higher than Polanski, but he's never made a Chinatown to make up for it.
Polanski”s Chinatown was a fine film.
That said.
Has this Von Trier fellow ever drugged and sodomized a child?
Just curious.
Not that I know of.
I did not think you would still be alive, much less reply.
How cool.
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