RE: The Last Movie You Watched
February 5, 2020 at 10:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2020 at 12:16 pm by Rev. Rye.)
FINALLY got to watch The House that Jack Built on DVD. When I heard the news of its Cannes premiere in 2018, this was my reaction:
While the violence was significantly tamer than I had been building up in my head (the ducking scene in particular was a lot less horrible than I had been expecting; that little guy’s real leg is still clearly tucked under there after Jack supposedly cuts it off), it still ended up being, well, Von Trier’s best work since Dogville. In particular, it feels like he learned from the self-indulgence of Nymphomaniac, making the digressions work for the film, and an ending that really feels like the logical conclusion, especially after it becomes clear that this is also a riff on the Divine Comedy as much as a serial killer film, creating a legitimate catharsis wholly absent from his last film. And this end credits music seems to be the icing on the cake:
While the violence was significantly tamer than I had been building up in my head (the ducking scene in particular was a lot less horrible than I had been expecting; that little guy’s real leg is still clearly tucked under there after Jack supposedly cuts it off), it still ended up being, well, Von Trier’s best work since Dogville. In particular, it feels like he learned from the self-indulgence of Nymphomaniac, making the digressions work for the film, and an ending that really feels like the logical conclusion, especially after it becomes clear that this is also a riff on the Divine Comedy as much as a serial killer film, creating a legitimate catharsis wholly absent from his last film. And this end credits music seems to be the icing on the cake:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png)
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
