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To put it simply, both the Biblical and the Roman pagan grace are ultimately based on a continuous exchange of favours, or gifts, in which what Marcel Mauss named the gift-exchange of primitive societies still resonates.
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.
May 17, 2016 · Dogville uses Grace for it's various nefarious purposes, displacing their own corruption onto her. They own her, and she is the means of their cathartic release of depravity, malevolence, and sin. They wouldn't give up such a useful instrument willingly.
Apr 14, 2023 · They were all there to submit themselves to von Trier’s vision of an honest, hardscrabble townsfolk in middle-of-nowhere Colorado who welcome a kindly woman named Grace Mulligan (Kidman),...
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Jul 22, 2005 · Her infinite grace, in fact, consumes the town of Dogville: Grace’s choice to have the town massacred, to consume it by fire, is a natural extension of the right of grace and the right of Grace. Grace confronts Tom before executing him herself.
To put it simply, both the Biblical and the Roman pagan grace are ultimately based on a continuous exchange of favours, or gifts, in which what Marcel Mauss named the gift-exchange of primitive societies still resonates.
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Jun 6, 2004 · The visitor, the man who had been chasing Grace upon her entrance to Dogville, arrives; and he is her father, a gangster (James Caan). He arrives with men with guns. Grace and her father talk, while the town anticipates what will happen.
