Gender: Male
Location: The Empire

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Wipe them out. All of them.

Gender: Male
Location: Bruges

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"Nothing is ever as good as you can imagine it."

Gender: Male
Location: Bruges

Alright, so I saw this last night and I kind of have mixed feelings. First off, like many of you said, the acting (by Dafoe AND Gainsbourg) and cinematography were both fantastic, no doubt about it. But I had trouble with what von Trier was trying to say. I felt like he was throwing a bunch of imagery and symbolism at the audience without putting it in any context or providing any explanation. I felt like the movie made/makes much more sense to him than it does anyone viewing it. I applaud it for it's consistently dark/disturbing tone, the dedicated acting and the beautiful visuals, but I can't say much more than that. The characters themselves weren't even all that likable. Lars von Trier has a tendency to take an extremely likable/sympathetic character (ie Dancer in the Dark) and make him or her suffer endlessly, which evokes emotion obviously. When the characters suffered in this movie, I found myself less affected by it. I was very sympathetic toward the woman throughout the first half hour or so until she got a bit too crazy for me to care.

Anyway, this movie was worth watching once for me, but I don't think I'll return to it, I didn't get much out of it unfortunately.

Great date movie though.

And yeah the fox was ridiculous.

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