Movie Response:
This video took me a while to warm up to. I’m not sure if it was the concept of the film, the way the film was shot, or the dialogue, but it was a harder film for me to find interesting. One thing I did enjoy was that you did not realize you where watching one of the obstructions the whole time. It felt like they were taking you through all the different ones, then at the end you realize it is all one large obstruction, with the ultimate purpose of discovering JØrgen Left and in turn Lars von Trier. As much as I liked the trickery of the film, I wish they had allowed the viewer to come up with that conclusion on their own, leaving some of it to mystery and confusion. However, also as we discussed in class, Lars von Trier does not like any film ever made and therefore tries to break the rules of films, trying to make something that is “crap” and it ends up being wonderful. Because of Lars von Trier’s attitude towards film making I could understand where he would want to take away the mystery and the viewers opinions, because that is what good films do, and he wanted to make a bad film. I think the film has a lot to say about the original film “The Perfect Human” and the creator JØrgen Left. The obstructions’ intent was not to create a new version of “The Perfect Human,” but were in fact a way to observe the man who first created and idealized “the perfect humans” and his outlook on what was perfect. I found the obstructions themselves to be a little dramatic and at times inappropriate. I don’t enjoy work that has a lot of nudity and sex in it, even if they are talking about human nature. Overall though, I thought it was a very interesting film and the concept behind it was creative and exciting. Therefore, much to Lars von Trier’s disapproval, I found this to be a very good film.
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