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If so what is it? What is that point he is trying to deliver? Human nature is far from being perfect? It's hardly new news. So he is trying to bring in a meaning here after all. But von Trier is neither stupid/ talentless nor childish/egocentric - hopefully, at least - to the extent to actually consider making movies a kind of therapy, and the screening room his own private couch at a shrink's. Even the dedication to Tarkovsky was not vain.

Several frames with Willem Dafoe's face will certainly enter the gallery of iconic images provided by modern cinema. The cinematography is stunning - in a good sense of the word.

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The problem is that when you have been hit by the extremities of his latest endeavor the most appropriate question you may want to ask seems to be suggested by the next line of the late detective Mills: 'What makes you so special that people should pay attention?' This movie doesn't strike as an overt emotional manipulation like 'Dancer in the Dark' (the fact that the latter is really something that can be described in such a way was eventually admitted even by the director himself). He turns to a sledgehammer with 'Antichrist'. von Trier was tapping on the shoulder with 'Dogville'. You have to hit them in the head with a sledgehammer.' L. John Doe says in 'Se7en': 'Wanting people to pay attention, you can't just tap them on the shoulder.