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Darian 2021-11-17 08:01:27

Randomly flipped through the short reviews, and published many short reviews about the virgin bitch and the evil hidden in human nature. I can only say that the evil of the villagers in this film is only a bonus. The real evil has been analyzed very clearly in the last dialogue. It is the "arrogance" of the heroine, which is obviously not understood by many people.
Pride ≠ Our Lady. Our Lady’s tolerance is for the same species at the same level, and the heroine’s arrogance is to regard herself as a species higher than the villagers, naturally possessing a higher moral standard, and therefore a lower level of "villagers" Our various "evil deeds" (in the eyes of the hostess are not evil, you will be sick when people eat shit, will you feel sick or normal if you eat shit?) In her eyes, they are just the performance of their moral standards.
This kind of arrogance, which is born without self-knowledge, is the real evil. From the spiritual level, people are classified as three or six or nine. The eyes of the superior and the inferior always contain infinite tolerance and they have never had any. Realized contempt, this is the essence of the female protagonist "Our Lady".
The last conversation in the car made the hostess understand that what she had always thought of as "tolerance" was actually an expression of arrogance. The moment she gave the order, it was actually the first time that the villagers were truly regarded as "people". , Falling from the high moral cloud to the mortal world, this is not blackening, but she has finally become a human being.

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Dogville quotes

  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.