I have such complicated feelings surrounding this movie. Because it is profoundly emotional and quite beautiful, yet absolutely is tarnished by it’s Cosby-esq level of creepiness. Yet in a vacuum, I think it would be my favorite. As for sure, it is one of the most beautiful tear inducing movies I have ever seen. Yet it is absolutely without a reason of a doubt a product of actual human misery.
Lars von Trier makes some of what I’d consider my favorite fucked up movies. I haven’t seen the lot of them but I fell into The House that Jack Built and I think it might be one of my favorite horror movies if I were going from experience. Melancholia I have seen first hand at the hands of an unmedicated friend who teeters between functional and despondent like a yoyo. Either superhuman, or absolutely swamped by life. He pushes me as an individual to ask - what content can I enjoy when coming from the minds of “the problem.” When sitting with the idea of toxic masculinity.
I will say that I believe his nazi comment was blown out of proportion. In that I don’t believe he was trying to say that he believed in what nazis believe in. But more so I think he was trying to put his head into a place to understand how one could become a nazi, especially being expressly from that lineage. I think it’s like individuals who try to understand the darker things in the world, like the root of addiction or what drives warlords. I have seen individuals (like black-ass people) read mein kampf and walk away with sympathy for hitler. And I think that might have been what he was playing at, but off the cuff he could not express it. Unless I am wrong, in which case outright nazis bad.
But yeah, von Trier makes me have a solid think, as well as Michael Jackson. Am I supporting evil in partaking in the media of men who create issues? But I also think often, almost every woman I have ever met has been assaulted in some way, and that perpetrators of evil far extend past the media.
Eh. This whole thing is a shit-show garbled mind-spat. Just enjoy the song if you’re into it. There’s one with Thom Yorke out there as well. Which is actually how I originally heard it on a college radio station a hundred years ago.
Dancer in the dark is definitely a great movie to feel like shit. It’s poignant, dark and sad.
It’s a happiness drain.
I feel so broken when I watch it, but I actually really love it. I know on Reddit people kept swarming it, and kept putting it on the daily “WHAT IS THE SADDEST MOVIE U EVER SEEN” bullshit post. To be honest, I walked away from Requiem for a Dream feeling more despondent. Mostly on account of how they did Ellen Burstyn’s character. Which yet again I will always state I’ve seen first hand because of the fantastic state of PA and how those assholes would toss ten pound pill bottles full of opiates at people like me with “jaw issues.” So yeah, I think a lot of people would get swept up in thinking “the doctor is always right” and end up bamboozled. But I will state that both movies are extreme and fictional “alterna-universe” versions of reality. Outside of the rather “fuck-you” finale of this movie second most stabbing song I can think of in this movie is Scatterheart. But ultimately without context all the songs in this movie are so surreal and it’s hard to understand how such a sad movie can also be a musical.
But I guess I’d say it’s a great advocate against toxic positivity =P!
***Mind you I don’t actually dig Requiem. I think I might be broken, cause I don’t really dig that guy’s works as a whole and the whole world loves them.