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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The House That Jack Built Neutral evaluation
2022-01-06 08:01
Extended Reading
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Sheridan 2022-03-27 09:01:13
Von Trier is not a revolutionary in film theory, he is just a pervert. And it's metamorphosis for metamorphosis' sake.
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Brett 2022-03-25 09:01:14
"Don't look at my actions, look at my works" Even if there are a lot of discomforts, 5 stars can still give the director the courage to challenge the mundane vision, touch the forbidden places, and the idea of being obsessed... Just like in this era, you can still see other A Clockwork Orange is as shocking and surprising.
The House That Jack Built quotes
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Jack: Some people claim that the atrocities we commit in our fiction are those inner desires which we cannot commit in our controlled civilization, so they're expressed instead through our art. I don't agree. I believe Heaven and Hell are one and the same. The soul belongs to Heaven and the body to Hell.
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Jack: [to Simple] If you feel like screaming, I definitely think that you should.