Breaking the Waves Comments

  • Lura 2022-03-24 09:02:16

    CHAPTER 5 actually appeared the singing voice of the ubiquitous old man LEONARD...

  • Shannon 2022-03-23 09:02:14

    Narrative structure suffocating...

  • Meaghan 2022-03-23 09:02:14

    Cause of death, I will use one word: good...Symbolic sacrifice and saving rebirth, don't want to say anything, and this terrible religious place. In the previous chapter, a phone call when the two fell in love and newly married was really touching, just listening to the sound of breathing was full of love. A pair of bells in the last kingdom of heaven, jerking tears. Also, I love Emily Watson, she's an amazing...

  • Lacy 2022-03-21 09:02:14

    The ending is so...

  • Kameron 2022-03-21 09:02:14

    【Dogma95 transition film/8.3】①Non-traditional narrative: rough with truth, gentle with humor (tragedy) ②Christian dogmatism irony (how can you love written words more than God himself; the church without a bell and the death knell) ③ "Stupidity" "Goodness (Confucianism and various sects of Christ have trained such silly girls) ps: Why does Emily always play the role of either rushing to have sex with her sister's husband, or having sex with someone else for her...

  • Justen 2022-03-21 09:02:14

    Eyes are full of faces - close-up interweaving, diminishing the sense of the set, erasing all geographical/cultural markers that might have a connection to reality. Although the whole story is full of realistic elements, it is impossible to determine what era and where, past or present, more like a fable isolated from reality. Beth herself is also, the spiritual and physical love is separated, and the past and the future cannot form an Autobiographical Self in her. It is completely dependent on...

  • Dimitri 2022-01-02 08:01:35

    Zarathustra came down the mountain and met a white-haired old saint in the forest. The old man saw that Zarathuste's eyes were pure, but there was a bit of evil hidden up and down the corners of his mouth, and he walked like a dance. Zarathustra said that because he loved the world, he was going to die. The old man declared that he only loves God, not the world. Saying goodbye to the old man, Zarathustra continued down the mountain, surprised that the old man did not know that God had...

  • Hortense 2022-01-02 08:01:35

    Don't tell me you are kind. Don't tell me that you like kind people. People always sing obsession because people don't believe in obsession from the bottom of their hearts. In fact, the characters in Las Von Trier's films are all alienated, but they are the most close to the dogma of society. He questioned everything, like sowing a plague in his...

  • Nels 2022-01-02 08:01:35

    It is a pity that according to the ancient habit, anyone who regards love as faith will eventually have a tragic...

  • Reinhold 2022-01-02 08:01:35

    end! end! end! Duang! Duang! Duang! Lars von Trier has found a god-like explanation for schizophrenia~ His man and his work seem to be abnormal, but in fact it is just a show of the lower limit jokingly. In the final analysis, it is a kind of opposition to all false feelings. False rebellion. Practical, but humane, crazy, and divine. Duang! Duang! Duang! Shocking! Shocked!...

Extended Reading

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • [first lines]

    Bess McNeill: His name is Jan.

    The Minister: I do not know him.

    Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake.

    The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders.

    An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is?

    Bess McNeill: It's when two people are joined in God.

  • Jan Nyman: Love is a mighty power, isn't it?