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I wanted to kill every person in this film....


If Jan had just kept his mouth shut and not told Bess to run off with other men, in the end he would have recovered and they would have lived happily ever after?

How unbelievably tragic.

I also hated that stupid Doctor who said he didn't believe in pills, or committing people for acting out, and then he brainwashes Jan into having her committed again, because of his own misguided emotions for her.

I hated all those priests.

I hated Bess' mother who cast her out and disowned her from her own home.

And half the time I hated Dodo for being such a miserable old hag just because her husband died.

At times I definitely felt like Bess had mental issues, but it seems a lot of her problems were a result of environmental factors, like being brought up in a religious crackpot community and being locked away in a house and fed drugs.

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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So much hate...

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Small, protestant communities like this thrive on self-hatred. It's why the world shuns them.

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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This is one of the most boring, bigoted, ridiculous, pretentious movies I've ever had to sit through in all my years of watching movies.

Torture, absolute torture!

Only a blockhead would like this one, much less love it.



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If you haven't already, I think you should really watch Dogville. You got the same stuff going on, but...oh, boy, are you gonna be a happy camper by the time the credits roll.

The bitter thinkers buy their tickets to go find God like a piggy in a fair

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Von Trier has a pretty low opinion of human beings, as far as his filmography goes this actually had its share of sympathetic characters - Jan and his friends were good guys, and Dodo cared for Bess despite the nagging.

As the above poster mentioned, check out Dogville for a great Von Trier film in which your hatred will be quenched.

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Bess was a good devoted woman.

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Yes she was.

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I hated everyone (ESPECIALLY THOSE HYPOCRITICAL CHURCH ASSHOLES) except Dodo. She loved Bess.

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