(Updated many years later)
I recently rewatched this film and noticed some details that I didn’t pay attention to before. For example, before the first obstacle was raised, Von Trier didn’t even know what kind of challenge his teacher should set up, so he just talked casually. The cigar in Les's hand improvised to think of South America, and then asked Les if he had been to Cuba, and immediately decided that the first obstacle should be set up there. It seemed that he simply wanted to disgust him haha. But the result of this is that when discussing the second challenge, Rice is determined not to disclose any information, trying to make him unable to grasp his own handle.
Later they discussed about the morals of shooting. If you want to shoot terrible things (the example given by Feng Tier is shooting a dead child), what kind of distance is acceptable, so a second obstacle arises. The filming was completed in a miserable place, but Les obviously could not ignore the tragedy when he chose, so he broke the rules and showed it in a way he thought was “good”, but von Trier Is to resolutely deny, "always try to do too well" is the evaluation here
Regarding the fourth obstacle, both of them obviously confuse the concept of animation and "cartoon" (in fact, many people are like this). They say they hate the grandstanding form of "cartoon", but they actually created excellent Art film
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The director of the film signed "Jorgen Rice (the origin of the film: the original author of the work "The Perfect Man"), and he reads the narration, but it is Feng. Tyre's film can be said to be a "challenge" that von Trier put forward to his teacher Jorgen Rice. Jorgen Rice is actually a master that Feng Trier respects very much. He said more than once in the film that "The Perfect Man" is a perfect work and he loves it very much. However, the grievances between the two seem to be quite entangled, seemingly the emotion of falling in love and killing each other. The challenge Ras put forward claimed that the purpose was to let Les destroy the work by himself. The method was to set up obstacles to recreate. The fun is that Les also cooperated very well. In fact, the so-called destruction is not destruction, but more of an experimental attitude to reconstruct. The most interesting question is: as a film master, how do you work hard to make a "bad film" and deny yourself ? Therefore, the audience will see that every time Les "worked hard" to create a bad film and turned it in, Feng Trier was very dissatisfied with "Why do you always do so well?" "The perfect movie already exists (referring to the original perfect movie). People), what's the point of you still doing so well?" Feng Tier has always been a devil-like director. His film career and his works are constantly creating subversion in content and form. If you simply put it Seeing as a feature film director, it is really narrow. He is a real experimenter. This time the five obstacles are probably due to his playfulness. Pulling his teacher Jorgen Rice into the pit will subvert him and also Subverted the movie again.
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