This is brilliant


This is indeed a brilliant movie.

LvT simply can't make a movie that is not somehow serious and this one is too.

He's slapping the leaders of IT companies here, he's slapping the financial world here and finally he's surprisingly slapping the snobbishness of the cultural world. It's simply brilliant.

It's something as rare as a comedy that makes you think. In these days nobody is really without guilt. The whole world has gone bananas and that's what he's saying. In the past the fairness in society has been guarded by either politicians, "good" capitalists or the intellectual elite. Today there's nobody making sure that things are fair. Even the cultural elite does not care about fairness. I believe that's what LvT is saying here. That nobody is trying to make sure that fairness is still present, that not only money but things like selfishness and cultural snobbishness are also a problem in the modern world.

The whole society is to blame, not only the evil capitalists. Even the intellectual parts of society has committed itself to individualism. We can no longer simply blame the capitalism for the injustice taking place in the world, we should blame selfishness and narcisism too.

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I'm also a big fan of LVT's movies and Direktøren for det hele is no exptection. It have it all from comedy to insanithy

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In the past the fairness in society has been guarded by either politicians, "good" capitalists or the intellectual elite. Today there's nobody making sure that things are fair. Even the cultural elite does not care about fairness. I believe that's what LvT is saying here.

I think you have a good point here.

I didn't think about this at first, but I am pretty sure you might be right.

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i think you are over analyzing this film to be honest. i doubt von trier cares about the leaders of it companies. heck, remember what he says at the start of the movie even?

i do agree with a lot of the points you present, but i just don't necessarily von trier cared to make this points in this movie.

this was a movie he made very quickly to help reinvigorate his love of film making. i don't think he was thinking of making these points in this movie. he may have satired the "financial world" as you say, and i certainly believe he did so.

but i think you are going a step too far in analyzing von trier's intentions.

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I'm not so sure he's over–analysing. Or at least, many of his points fit in nicely with the film itself.

– There is no boss of it all, no one is in charge.
– The narrator's emphasis on the film not being important
– Comedy now being the revealing of comedy (plus the absurdity of comedy)
– Finally, the performance of his monologue at the end for the Icelander. I'm not quite sure what it signifies, but perhaps to do with the idea of something beautiful but meaningless?

Reading that first post did make me think there was more depth to the film than I initially figured.

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"Comedy now being the revealing of comedy"
What does that even mean?

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Yes it's another brilliant film by Lars Von Trier. I gave it a 10.

But I have to admit I was laughing of joy throughout most of the film.
So the nod to your analysis came after a second watch of the film.

Narcissism is eating the world.
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agree. i think the film is primarily to do with the lack of responsibility and integrity in the modern business world, and this is becoming more of a pressing issue as corporations are given more leeway to hire and fire, and the organisational structures are even more bureaucratic and impersonal. but there are other things going on here too.

i'm not a huge fan of Von Trier, but liked this film.

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