[lbo-talk] Re: Liberalism with a Fascist Face

Simon Huxtable jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 25 02:34:23 PDT 2004



> From: BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com>
>> while this can provide a warm sense of shared
>> shadenfreude when he tears into someone asking for
>> it -- lars von trier, say


> The reason he doesn't like Von Trier is that Von
> Trier
> won't sugarcoat his vision like Spielberg/Rudolph.
> White wants uplift -- Capra for the 21st century,
> not
> Von Trier's gloomy realism.
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister

Calling von Trier a gloomy realist seems to me to rest on a non sequitur: people think realists are gloomy; von Trier is gloomy; von Trier must be a realist.

Personally, I think von Trier is stupendously overrated, although The Kingdom does seem to suit his style well.

After the 'goldheart' trilogy (Breaking the Waves, Idioterne and Dancer in the Dark) concentrating on the sacrifice of women, one might have thought he'd find a new subject. In Dogville, he continues with the sacrificial female but the added twist that she turns out to be vengeful??? As 90 percent of British 'observational' comedians would say: "What's that all about?" As a critique of America it's impossibly weak.

Simon

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