One Word Movie

Manderley

This is the sequel to Dogville, just with different actors and a different story. They kept the font though, that's nice.

There's some kind of Dogme weirdness going on, where there aren't any proper sets, there's just writing on the floor saying what's supposed to be there. I thought this was a bit like a teenager scrawling Dwayne's Love Palace above his bed. But I found this was just a distraction, because it didn't mean anything. Because this film is mostly about is winding up liberals. That is a fun occupation, and like Hazlitt says, this film"spares no occasion of bating the rabble".

But it's quite obvious, and ultimately there isn't any message, because all the characters are full of crap. For instance, soon everyone begins to vote on everything, and from this we're presumably supposed to derive the idea that democracy is rubbish for making decisions. Well, he-llo, just turn on the news, anyone can see that's true. Democracy's good for getting rid of shit governments without violence, not for voting on the best shape for cucumbers.

This is a shit film, not torrentially so, and not without interest. But over-satisfied with itself, and a tiny bit obvious.

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 10:49 AM