DOGVILLE - Lars Von Trier

Original Title: Dogville

Year: 2003

Country: Sweden

Genre: Drama

Duration: 177 minutes

Crew:

. Directed by: Lars Von Trier

. Plot: Lars Von Trier

. Producer: Vibeke Windelov

. Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle

. Issue: Molly Marlene Stensgard

. Actors: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany, Blair Brown, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, Siobhan Fallon, John Hurt (vocals), Udo Kier, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, and Miles Purinton

Synopsis: Told in nine chapters and a prologue, this film portrays the named village of Dogville Dogville, located within the U.S., 30 years after the great depression. Grace, the film's main character, comes to town on the run from gangsters and is greeted by Tom, which in turn uses it as an illustration, eventually show us how far humans can go.

Subject (s) of the film: The film rotates about an illustration by Tom, which is based on the discovery of the human being.

Lars Von Trier and his faith, or lack thereof?

     After viewing the works of Lars Von Trier, I must agree that the purpose of this director, is not altogether please the spectator, on the contrary, he likes to face the facts as they are and bluntly. So cruelly shows that the human being has no limits.

   I think their criticism is not based just on the outskirts of the human being and his cruelty, but what raises it.        We can say that Lars Von Trier is not limited only to show the reality, but a search of why this reality.

In all his films put ourselves in the role of character and question what we would do in his place, I think it is exactly this purpose that Lars Von Trier seeks to achieve. When you ask yourself, we are faced with a kind of reality that leads us to claim that every human being is so. It seems that Lars Von Trier can open the "curtains".

   So do it in all his films. Now I wonder, will the faith or lack of faith that makes perspetivar this way? Mostly, Lars von Trier puts his characters as a kind of relationship between faith and lack of it, where characters with faith, are suffering more, unlike the characters without faith, leaving untouched most of the films by this author.

   I mean faith in order to refer to a hopeful character, kind, forgiving others. How does religion say to act. So if we act according to the criteria set forth in a predominantly Christian society, such as generosity, kindness and forgiveness towards humans, the result is not satisfactory? And if we act against these criteria are we privileged? Or the fact that the human being is incomprehensible and their attitudes tend always to the right, but end in evil?

  Lars Von Trier will be a bad man, or just looking for a man who does not hide the reality and detail reports events that probably would not be entirely impossible to happen in the real world?