Dogville [2004]

Customer Reviews:

Mmmmmm.......2008-02-03

Quirky little revenge comedy from the man that brought you the Rom-Com 'Breaking the Waves'. OK not all of this is quite true but if you spend your time watching this film trying, as Mr Von Trier may want you to do, to deconstuct or read into it various meanings you may miss out on enjoying an almost 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'-style revenge comedy with a blackly funny narration from John Hurt. Soon to be made into a musical featuring Claire Sweeney.

Just dreadful.......2007-12-31

If I'd wanted to see a play, I'd have gone to the theatre. I have one comment only, I will never get back the time it took to watch this film, 3 hours of my life completely wasted

Shocking!.......2007-11-26

A very interesting film worth watching. The film is questioning the undefined rules of the society. What is the society governed by? Virtue? Power? Social goodness? Selfishness?The only one creature that detects the helpless girl arriving the town is the dog. The only living creature after she leaves the town is also the dog!The film carefully critisizes the human being and the evil in him/her. The closing remarks shows the homeless people living in America and the producer expresses his disbelief in the American dream. But I think there is a flaw there:

The reformers of Marxian economics always give example of Robinson Crusoe living on an island isolated from the society and base thier economical systems on that example. Marx critisizes them saying that the human can not be isolated from the economical and political system that he is surrounded by. In Dogville the small town is isolated from the outside world by its remoteness but it is well inside the capitalist society. This can be seen by the wage earners, shop kepers and monetary system. There is my hypothesis:

If this sequence of events had happened in a asocialist village none of this would happened. The new man created by the common good would not dream of taking advantage of a girl in the first place let alone systematically gang rape her! The members of the lower classes and the members of the working class of the capitalist society can be blamed for their evil doings but the working class itself can not be blamed. The class will rise from its ashes in the capitalist society and create a world of its own.

The final of the film easily give the audience a relief and sympathy for the poor girl but no! A new world should be created by the very people who we came to blame. With a compulsory (sic) revolutionary guidance.

Has to be one of the worst films ever-total rubbish!.......2007-09-13

From the start I have to say that I do NOT like these airy-fairy productions, obviously unlike some reviewers including the so-called professional ones who found the DVD "Inspirational" "Intriguing" "Top Drawer" etc etc.Had I read anywhere that the film was set completely on a small open plan set which is probably aboy 100 metres by 50 metres in area, which has no solid structures of any kind,I would have saved my money.A complete waste of talent, this is absolute crap and I would put this in the Worse Top 5 films of all time for being boring.I now use the DVD for a coaster which is a better use for it.

outstanding.......2007-05-22

Dogville is a masterpiece by Lars Von Trier. His minimalist set brings out his characters and allows us to focus on their development. Nicole Kidman delivers a very convincing performance as the sweet Grace who encounters the dark heart of humanity in the friendly town of Dogville.

The movie runs approximately three hours long and is slow moving so you need to have patience to enjoy it. Bitter at times, Dogville will make you cringe and cry simultaneously. It ends in an overwhelming conversation delivered with near perfect script writing.

Lars Von Trier deals with the mass effect of humans in a group. We are all perfectly capable of acting unjustly but justifying our actions using the majority as an excuse.

Product Description

DVD NTSC!!! DVD Region: ALL; Theatrical release: 1976; DVD release: 2004; Play time: 50 min.; Sound format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0; Language(s): English; Subtitles: No Subtitles; Format: 4:3, Full Screen, Color; Genre(s): Ballet. Baryshnikov's American Television debut! This 1976 live performance showcases the incredible Mikhail Baryshnikov, at the peak of his talents, shortly after arriving in the west. The DVD features Baryshnikov in solos and pas de deux with a variety of ballerinas, including Gelsey Kirkland, his first great U.S. partner. The program also includes Misha's spectacular leaps and spins in Don Quixote. This is the live event Baryshnikov's fans have been waiting for!

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