Big Mattress Movie of the Week
Have any of you seen the film, "Dogville?" Gets my vote for
'sleeper of the year'. Innovative, off-the-beaten path, a bit dark (at
first) but then takes you for a nice spin around the block.
Not for everybody, but I'm betting that most of you blog regulars will fucking love it.
-c
P.S. Ebert hated it, so you know it's gotta be great.
P.P.S. I strongly suggest you do not read anything about this. Not even the comments below. Trust me... Go in cold.
Comments
Wow!! Cool movie!
And I thought for sure it was going to have a depressing ending but what a twist they found a happy ending for it after all!!!
Does that make me a Republican?
Posted by: sb | October 12, 2004 12:18 AM
I agree with sb. Watched Dogville last night and it really was terrific. Another good Charles flick, even if it broke with your usual rule of having girl-on-girl action. (Although, when Vera and the others went to smash Grace's figurines, there was an undercurrent of violence that was rape-like.)
Anyhow, you were right. Ebert was wrong.
-j
PS What was truly terrifying: as out-of-hand as things got in that town, it's scary how plausible it all was.
PPS My favorite part was her meeting with James Caan in the car at the end, when he tells her how arrogant she is for not holding everyone else to the same standard she holds herself. By forgiving them, she is being arrogant. That was a "wow moment" for me. She was pathetically forgiving. I mean, I'm forgiving, but there's no way I would've apologized to that psycho in the orchard and then let him rape me out of some sense of guilt. What was that? Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, if you take the sex out of that situation, a lot of women do that.. not the rape thing, but we put ourselves in uncomfortable postitions and do things we really don't want to do out of empathy or sympathy or just difficulty saying "no." But she was taking doormat to new lows there (or maybe I'm only saying that because it was a sex thing.)
Posted by: choolie | October 12, 2004 12:20 AM
I was just recommending Dogville to my brother, and I was trying to warn him that it's not a laugh-a-minute movie, or a movie that you should sit down expecting to enjoy in the normal escapist way--- If you begin with those expectations, you'll hate it. Then my honey put it a good way: "Sit down and watch it as if you were watching it for Film Class." He's right. It's that kind of movie. A movie you'd enjoy in Film 101, but wouldn't necessarily rent on Friday night when you've got your beer buddies over (or your chardonnay chick pals.)
Posted by: freckles | October 12, 2004 12:22 AM
How aoout "Requiem for a Dream"? That movie blew me away. But a friend sagely asked, "Why'd the kid shoot up in that gangrenous arm? Why didn't he just use his foot?" I'm not well-versed in this field, THANK CHRIST! But a killer movie nonetheless.
Posted by: robert tonucci | October 27, 2004 12:32 PM