LVT

I’ve been hearing a lot about Lars von Trier lately.  Love his films or hate him, he seems to have caught the collective attention of TFA South Dakota.  Up to a few moments ago, I felt unable to fully participate in this important dialogue, given the fact that I did not actually attend the recent LVT film festival.

Friends, all that has changed.  While browsing movies available for download off the iTunes store, I recognized a title: Dogville.  More importantly, I realized that the director of this movie was none other than Mr. von Trier himself.  I watched the trailer and found that yes, this was the movie I watched several years ago.

And now let me waste no time in adding my voice to the debate.  As to the question of whether LVT’s movies suck worse than a day with indoor-recess and no PE, my answer must be a resounding “yes.”  From what I remember, this was simultaneously the oddest and most unbelievably depressing and disturbing movie I have ever seen.  I watched this movie with one Michael Seguin (at his suggestion, unsurprisingly), and he can attest to its awfulness.

Sorry, Lars von Trier and all fans thereof: I have judged the man and his entire artistic corpus on the basis of my fading memories of a single movie, and they have been found wanting (the man and his artistic corpus, not my memories…).

~ by haysa on April 8, 2008.