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Dogville is a very small American town by an abandoned silver mine in the Rocky Mountains, with a road leading up to it and nowhere else to go but the mountains. The film begins with a prologue in which a dozen or so of the fifteen citizens are introduced. They are portrayed as lovable, good people with small flaws which are easy to forgive.
Jun 6, 2004 · Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier), is a film set in the United States of America by a Danish man who has yet to visit the country, but who has been so thoroughly saturated with the television programs, films, music, business, and politics of the country that he feels compelled to address it as a subject in his work.
Mar 26, 2004 · ''Dogville'' was shown as part of last year's New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from Stephen Holden's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 4; the full text of the ...
Roger Ebert. April 9, 2004. 5 min read. Lars von Trier exhibits the imagination of an artist and the pedantry of a crank in “Dogville,” a film that works as a demonstration of how a good idea can go wrong. There is potential in the concept of the film, but the execution had me tapping my wristwatch to see if it had stopped.
American. This may be because the movie tells a story that is set in small-town America in the age of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era of the beginning of the 1930s, full of desperate, ragged people. However, to ex-trapolate the message ‘bad people in America’ would really be a poor hermeneutical result.
While avoiding the pretence of producing an exhaustive reading of such a complex object as Lars Von Trier's Dogville, this article selectively uses the film to explore the process of the emergence of a new legality and a new set of legal relationships within a community. Two superimposed layers of meaning, the biblical and the mythic, are considered and their interaction with two different ...
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Jul 22, 2005 · My intention is to give an illustration of, or put on stage, the limitations and monstrous possibilities of Kant’s universal hospitality. These monstrous possibilities are illustrated most vividly in Lars Von Trier’s recent filmic fairytale, Dogville. Dogville is a fascinating combination of theatre, film and visualized literature. The ...
