Fighting the permanence of "Love is Art" with "Destruction Creates Art"

Courtney 2022-03-22 09:02:14

I love it so much, this movie pushes my thirst for art and philosophy to the extreme. Conversational monologues and segmented narrative structures preserve a steady and ample rhythmic space in which art, music, philosophy, and rhetoric of all kinds can be interspersed, creating a hell above the self-destructive Dante. Art heaven.

In the film, Vigie calls Jack an "anti-Christ", who uses language full of religious definitions to oppose religion, separates the flesh and values, emphasizes the power consciousness of "tiger and lamb", and mocks God with miracles. How can a serial murderer with a heavy sin be blessed by God? So Jack uses "Destruction Creates Art" to counter the permanence of "Love is Art".

A Nietzschean, nihilistic above all, the admiration of beauty must be separated from the proposition of love, challenging the boundaries of human morality with various rigorous and pathological obsessive-compulsive gestures. At the end of the reappearance of Dante's "The Divine Comedy", Vigie leads Jack to look into the depths of hell. "The light source is the deepest darkness in the negatives." A fact that cannot be concealed.

I give it five stars for its high unity of philosophy and artistry.

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  • Hattie 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    I was furious when I saw it in a French cinema in 2018, but I watched three or four Ben Nietzsche in 21 years. If I rewatched this film, I should have a huge change in my thinking.

  • Mona 2022-03-29 09:01:05

    1. Lars von Trier once again extended the history of cinema. If the previous work [Female Addict] was an encyclopedia discussing female sexuality (and its rebellion against society), this film can be called a presentation of men's conspiracy against women. A quasi-thesis film about sexual violence (and its social rebellion). 2. Ideologically inherited the aestheticism of the end of the century - art is anti-morality, anti-life, anti-rational, anti-religion, visual face smashing, hunting family, milk cutting, genocide, and each chapter is interspersed with various art forms, Combined with the self-sophistication of the murderer, it seems to be beautiful with killing, evil, massacre and ugliness, but it is actually full of black humor and irony. 3. See also Lars's characteristic hand-held camera to reconstruct reality, Dante's Divine Comedy structure, which visualizes the mountains of corpses and blood in hell, and even pulls some audiences into the moral dilemma of identifying with criminals. 4. A collection of self-salutation fragments, a new realm of narcissism. 5. Hell and Paradise - the smell of mowing as a child, the juxtaposition of life and death (scythe harvesting). 6. The ending song is perfect. 7. Gothic church + corpse house & noble rot aesthetics of destruction = antichrist. 8. The dark light of the negative film and the shadow of walking between the street lamps change. (9.5/10)

The House That Jack Built quotes

  • Lady 1: This was maybe a mistake.

    Jack: What was maybe a mistake?

    Lady 1: Me getting in this car with you. You might as well be a serial killer. Sorry, but you do kind of look like one.

  • Jack: Nobody wants to help!