This film did not disappoint one bit. I’d been very hesitant to watch this ever since I began Von Trier’s filmography (due to hearing of the obvious reputation it has) but I have to say this very well may be his best work, right beside Dogville. Apologies in advance for the lengthy write-up, I just really thought this film deserved a proper interpretation/review. It’s a complex film layered in many different subtexts (psychology, identity, religion, relationships.) so bear with me. Had…

“What was once before you, an exciting and mysterious future, is now behind you. Lived, understood, disappointing. You realize you are not special, you have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone’s experience. Every. Single. One. The specifics hardly matter, everyone is everyone.”

This truly is a film about everything, and everyone. It is a film about conscious existence and subconscious being, a film about love, a film about death, and the art…

I have a million things I want to say about this but my mind just can’t fucking seem to calm down from this 3 hour long otherworldly, infuriating, surreal anxiety attack. Excuse my hyperbole, but this is one of the most bravely unique and ingeniously crafted films EVER MADE. Don’t care if that’s recency bias because I haven’t had such a heavily emotional response to a film in a long time, and the themes are so chaotically ambiguous in a…

(Apologies in advance for the super long write up!)

On Monday my Inland Empire Criterion arrived. I had been ultimately hesitant about this Criterion release since it’s announcement, because a huge element of what makes this film so good is the blurry digital SD “home video” type effect. I’ve seen this movie 3 times and every single time I watched that shitty blurry rip that’s been up on YouTube for years. I fucking loved it every time. I worried that…