Firstly, I cannot stand films that openly use hand-held "documentary" style cameras, they look terrible, shake and lose focus all the time. I generally want my films to look like films NOT like documentaries, and the supposed theory that hand held camera work makes things look more real is just not true, in fact it works towards the opposite. Shaky camera work and poor focus exemplify the fact that it is a film.
The film itself is fairly poor, and tries to demonstrate ideas of "non-conformity" by promoting the "inner-idiot", and it simply doesn't work. I find it ironic that this film preaches that social constructs are wrong when the character Stoffer creates one himself by enforcing the world of the "idiot". It seems to me that this film has set out to be controversial for the sake of being controversial, and really just ends up looking tasteless and grotesque.
Also, Lars Von Trier, who helped come up with the Dogma 95 movement breaks his own "vow of chastity" in a number of ways, proving that he is "the idiot". Don't waste your time on this trash
The film itself is fairly poor, and tries to demonstrate ideas of "non-conformity" by promoting the "inner-idiot", and it simply doesn't work. I find it ironic that this film preaches that social constructs are wrong when the character Stoffer creates one himself by enforcing the world of the "idiot". It seems to me that this film has set out to be controversial for the sake of being controversial, and really just ends up looking tasteless and grotesque.
Also, Lars Von Trier, who helped come up with the Dogma 95 movement breaks his own "vow of chastity" in a number of ways, proving that he is "the idiot". Don't waste your time on this trash
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