Who was in the wrong here?

literally everyone?

>Dogville (2003) is both a philosophical parable (a very bitter and cynical one) about the damnation of the human soul, and an experiment in avantgarde theater, disguised as a fairy tale (with the addition of the hand-held camera). The combination is reminiscent of Brecht's plays (particularly Our Town). It is, by far, Von Trier's darkest vision of humankind.
>This parable contains, in turn, a parable inside itself, the parable of a Christian-style sacrifice and martyrdom by an innocent in the name of universal salvation. That the innocent turns out to be a woman, and then the daughter of a mafia boss, simply increases the layers of possible interpretations. That she eventually chooses to use her father as the angel of justice to punish the humans who have turned the eden into a living hell, that she carries out the universal judgement with no mercy for the sinners, adds another level of interpretation, that mixes Biblical imagery and sociopolitical analysis. That then she chooses to become an even worse sinner than the citizens of Dogville adds yet another layer, another mixture of metaphysics and cynicism.

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>Tom is, in many ways, the ultimate loser. He is considered smart, and considers himself smart because he wins at checkers, but, by the end of the film, he has achieved nothing: he has not written his novel, he is the only male who has not slept with Grace, he has made all the wrong decisions, and he has proved to be the most hypocritical and coward of them all. If Dogville is the equivalent of Dante's hell, Tom the writer is sent to the lowest layer. And Tom is the only character who has a well-defined Brechtian social identity: he is "the writer". Von Trier seems to indulge in exposing "the writer" as a particularly repugnant sort of people.
>Von Trier's psychological tricks work wonders. For example, at the beginning one is tempted to feel that the gorgeous stranger is trying to fool the town, so that they don't deliver her to the gangsters. But we soon realize that it is instead the town that is fooling her. We learn to love them just so that we can truly hate them.

>>83850244
Tom is reddit: the character