Is this supposed to be a joke? I'm serious. It gets so depressing

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>>79526192
>It gets so depressing and manipulative that i can easily imagine that Lars made this film as a sort of "parody"

This how I feel about it too.

I really enjoy the songs that Bjork did for the movie an the first half is good but once it's get dark, I felt like the movie went way over the top with how sad it is.

>>79526192
It's not a parody, it's just that Lars is a sadist, and he takes genuine pleasure in the idea of inflicting pain on his audience. Almost all of his films are made with this goal in mind

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that's how i felt about the turin horse
when films get bleak enough they become funny because it's so absurd and i can never tell whether it's intentional

>>79526192

I have a feeling there's supposed to be a Brechtian thing to it, like you're not supposed to treat this as a serious musical and instead be distanced by the "phoniness" of the numbers and try to think about the social messages (Bjork is a worker who gets exploited by the system or something). The same method more obvious in Dogville.

>>79527841
this

how can you people not get it

>>79528136
Not get what? He's wrong.

>>79527841
The social message was so obvious , everyone got it.

Also your wrong.

no von trier is just a hacky little bitch who makes inauthentic art films and somehow keeps slipping through the cracks makijg it

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>>79526192
To bad that a movie like that already existed, he just made it more shitty looking

>>79526192
>>79527841
>Since it is impossible to take the plot seriously on any literal level, it must be approached, I think, as a deliberate exercise in soap opera. It is valid to dislike it, but not fair to criticize it on the grounds of plausibility, because the movie has made a deliberate decision to be implausible: The plot is not a mistake but a choice.

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>>79529325
How is he wrong?