Borrowed the idiots of lars von trier and it turned out to be a videotape. The 18uncut on the cover adds a light-butt-stock male-female back, which makes people feel that this is an erotic-erotic or erotic-erotic-film. It turned out that the first hour-plus was more like a documentary. Saying it looks like it is just because of the style of the image. Regardless of dogma95's manifesto, in the face of such a subversion, I still feel like it's just a movie - a fictional orgy.
I must admit, I was moved by the documentary footage in the film. What I like to watch the most are those interviews that are facing the camera. The characters' pauses in the corners of their eyes and brows are so charming and chewy. However, I did not feel the joy of "Inner idiot" which is the core of the film. Although I usually pretend to be mad and foolish and immerse myself in it, if I were to be an idiot, unless I was in that group, there would only be pain.
This is just a flip of the "big dog" logic, I thought. In high school or college, there was a book - "The Big Dog", which roughly talked about the life logic of the rich. I remember a point mentioned in it, rich people like to live in rich areas, just because the same people live together will make them less troublesome, for example, no one will ask you why you bought such a expensive car, no one will come running Begging from you, and no one will chase you all day long to ask how you got rich. This is big dog logic. And pretending to be an idiot can only be a way of living when people who pretend to be idiots live in groups. Once scattered, and return to a dog-like or cat-like life, you have to be a dog and a cat. There's not much to say about that.
As for the themes of madness and civilization, it is reminiscent of Foucault. The film fails to successfully express the joy of being an idiot with images, but to a certain extent justifies the rationality of the various civilized means of "treatment" of madness mentioned by Foucault.
Let me ask, every viewer who has seen the idiot, do you want to be a member of the idiot? Do you want them in your life if you are not one of them? Would you like to be a real Idiot in real life, not in the idiot group? Please answer all three questions at the same time.
I'm curious how lars von trier himself will answer.
Oh, one thing must be mentioned. If there is no backtracking of the family background at the end of the film, if there is no establishment of the image of a mother who has lost her parent and child, the whole film will not be worth mentioning. But the silent and cruel reality at the end of the film instantly cast a touch of moonlight on the whole madness. So soft, so sad.
Perhaps, only this most fringe, least noticed mother, a woman who appears in the audience as an unidentified intruder in the whole film, can truly experience the pleasure of inner idiot - reality is torn apart Afterwards, hide in the chaos of life, be an idiot, and stay away from reality. No one knows her life experience, no one understands her pain, just be an idiot quietly. Others are just playing crazy and acting stupid for a while, and sooner or later they will return to the real life that is not so painful.
So, as the only one who doesn't pretend, she lights up the whole movie and provides a little plausibility for other pretenders to escape. Just a little.
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