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Suddenly and unexpectedly, a young, apparently high-class woman named Grace, played by the beautiful Nicole Kidman, arrives at Dogville while escaping from a bunch of gangsters. Initially, the inhabi-tants are not particularly keen to ‘give sanctuary to a fugitive’, because they would be exposed to the risk of retaliation from the gangsters.
Chapter 2. In which Grace follows Tom's plan and embarks upon physical labor. On Tom's suggestion, Grace offers to do chores for the citizens—talking to the lonely, blind Jack McKay, helping to run the small shop, looking after the children of Chuck and Vera, and so forth.
In "Breaking the waves", Emily Watson makes eye contact with the camara and makes gestures, subtly breaking the fourth wall. In "Dogville" we have the same idea but in a much more direct manner. If the backgrounds of the scenes are just decoration for the story, characters and ideas, then getting rid of them gives the spotlight to these things.
Jun 6, 2004 · Dogville is a color film about three hours long with a prologue and nine chapters, narrated by the actor John Hurt in voice that is by turns delighted, informative, mocking, mournful, and wary. The film begins with the writer Tom and his concerns for the town’s moral rearmament.
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.
- Andrea Brighenti
- 2006
Jul 22, 2005 · Dogville places itself completely at the gangster’s disposal and provides them with a fine welcome: “Dogville might be off the beaten track, but was hospitable nonetheless.” (Ch. 9) Grace is forced into the Big Man’s car: “You need to justify your actions before you shoot us?
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In Dogville, something definitely goes wrong at the level of the gift-exchange. And this for two main reasons: first, the gift of the charming fugitive named Grace (Nicole Kidman), the gift of Grace – who gives herself away to the townspeople, as Lars von Trier remarked in an interview2 – is not reciprocated, or better, stops being ...
