{"id":344,"date":"2007-05-17T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/05\/17\/lars-von-trier-what-a-joker\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T03:53:28","slug":"lars-von-trier-what-a-joker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/lars-von-trier-what-a-joker\/","title":{"rendered":"Lars Von Trier: What a Joker!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read that Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier is too depressed<\/a> to work, I did a sort of mental double-take. Weren\u2019t his movies all really, really depressing? How much more depressed could he be? And if he wasn\u2019t depressed in the first place, what was his problem?<\/p>\n

Remember “Breaking the Waves?” I personally couldn\u2019t stand it, and went to bed in the middle of it. I could hear the main character screaming in anguish for what seemed like hours. I think it was a gang rape scene. Then there was “Dancing in the Dark”, which was way too weird to even consider watching. That\u2019s the one where Bjork is going blind or something. Then there was “Dogville.” That one was actually pretty compelling, the one where Nicole Kidman ends up wearing a dog collar and is abused by a whole town.<\/p>\n

Now I find that the depression announcement could be the director\u2019s idea of a joke<\/a>. He likes to fuck with people, apparently. He told reviewers that one of his movies was filmed in Automatovision, using randomly generated camera shots. In another movie, he invites a real filmmaker to embark on an absurd project, and then films the guy freaking out. \u00a0 I\u2019ve also just read an interview<\/a> in which Lars reveals that he was brought up by communist nudists.<\/p>\n

Lars, you are a funny one! I don\u2019t believe you\u2019re depressed. I think you\u2019re promoting your next film, \u201cAntichrist.\u201d I just hope there\u2019s not too much screaming in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"