Title: A Dog
Product review: "Dogville" is lost. They tried to do a Broadway style or live acting play on the bigscreen. Seeing this performance live might have worked for me as it's much easier to relate or engage with live on-stage actors. However, put them on film without any adjustments to acting or style, including little editing, and it gets boring fast.In contrast, a related movie with this style, the Hitchcock movie "Rope", was successful by using very good camera work and lighting, more props, and extremely pronounced acting - almost over-emphasizing words and actions - that all transfered well to film. (Oh, the suspense helped engage the viewer too here.)Dogville was an experiment in film making, it's minimalistic approach won't appeal to many, and they didn't get the stage acting to work well on film. The film is lost between stage acting style and film media style.
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