Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Also: that critic is an idiot.

[quote name="Hans Clastorp"][quote name="C. Robert Cargill"]But what is absolutely clear is that while Von Trier succeeds at crafting a masterful piece of moving art, he manages not to impart upon the audience a single, tangible idea that they all share.[/quote] A single tangible idea that all what share? The scenes? Von Trier's movies? Help me out here. [quote name="C. Robert Cargill"]Everyone walks out with a different impression, but not in a good way. Arguments are about whether the film is decidedly misogynistic or wildly feminist; whether Defoe is crazy or whether the couple deserves everything that happens to them. I've run through the film a number of times in my head and discussed it with some of the <b>best online film minds in the world</b> and found not a person with a clear grasp of exactly what Von Trier is trying to say.[/quote] How could the the best online film minds in the world let us down like this? He should have asked me, because I would have enlightened him as to what the movie is about, namely: the struggle of the rational mind (=male) to overcome the irrational nature-world (=female). It's really not that hard to puzzle out. This guy's problem is that he thinks the movie is 'about' that struggle, in the sense of having some concrete opinion about it that von Trier is trying to convey, through the hopelessly inefficient means of making a feature film, instead of simply enacting that struggle. The confusion comes in, I believe, in thinking that people's dumb, pedantic opinions about things like that have inherent value. [quote name="C. Robert Cargill"]But this critic gives it a solid C. Worth the watch once, but never again.[/quote] I give this critic a solid D, in the face. :( [/quote]