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Title: Silly, Pointless
Review: I usually stick to just reviewing what I like, but the distance between how some people speak of this film, and the reality of the movie itself, is so great that I feel compelled to chime in.It's incoherent and pointless. It's just a sick Sirk-like (as in Douglas Sirk) melodrama that changes tone somewhere in the middle, as the director apparently likes to do. It's adds up to nothing and it seems rather obvious that this writer/director wouldn't have it any other way - he makes smirking little facsimilies of art products, not actual art products. This is like a bad parody of Fassbinder's take on Sirk's movies.The lead actors are great, and Von Trier is technically just fine as a screenwriter and as a director. But don't be fooled into thinking that he's furthering cinema in some way with movies like this. He's just yanking chains and the only personal expression going on here is him laughing at the audience.
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