The film is not as scary as imagined. The main body of the film is not a display of violent spectacles, but a dialogue between the killer Jack and the mysterious elder Virgil. Many of Jack's remarks in the film are actually defending the director's perverse behavior. If you don't like the director's overly self-indulgent character, you won't like this movie. Even if it is self-indulgent, the film still explores a question worth pondering in the dialogue between the two protagonists: whether the heinous sins can nurture the darkest beauty. Von Trier watered a flower of evil in the ruins of corpses. It is both evil and deep and beautiful, but it is not the most advanced art after all. Whether he fails or not, von Trier has once again dedicated his interesting provocation and mockery to the world
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2022-01-06 08:01
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The House That Jack Built quotes
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Simple: Why do you always have to be so cruel? I'm not completely stupid.
Jack: That fucking depends on your definition of "completely."
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Jack: All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Simple back together again.