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Re: Well, at least you're beginning to understand what this forum's about:

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on August 7, 2005 at 15:50:28

In Reply to: Well, at least you're beginning to understand what this forum's about: posted by tinear on August 7, 2005 at 13:19:16:

"One of the greatest commentaries on American culture ever filmed; of course, it took a foreigner to do it."

Von Trier has never spent anytime on our fair shores due to his fear of flying. So his "commentary" on the American culture is learned from other than personnel experience. Which is always dangerous. Second, his dislike of American is well published. His condemnation of the America, while never criticising his native countries' profiting from the Nazis during the second World War, nor his adopted countries complicity with the Nazis during that same war bespeaks the colored glasses he looks through. Which, in the end, leaves us with someone who has little experience from which he criticises, and one who appears to criticise America for what it is, rather than what it does. If he was in any way concerned with what it does, then he would likewise comment on the foibles of his native and adopted countries, and their very checkered past.

I thought the film was good, though not "brilliant." Kidman turned in a very good performance, as she generally does.

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