The baby scene was funny!


The baby scene which was a reference to Antichrist's scene was pretty cheeky i thought :)

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one of the most enjoyable moments in the whole film, for any Trier fan, certainly!

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Yeah, kid is going to fall over a balcony and kill himself. Cinema patron in front of me started gaffawing his damn fool head off, just to show everyone that he had picked up on the in-joke.

Call me a sentimental old fuddy duffy, but I don't find kids dying a laff riot. Was relieved to see that kid survived. Think Lars is getting a bit self-absorbed and even more self-important than he usually is.

Discussions of PC etc were what you would have got about 30 years ago on any campus. Boring stuff now, dated, dronish, and surprisingly superficial.

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You don't find kids dying a laff riot...
Fine. It was just a cinematographic act that isn't used often and that made it funny and original. The kid didn't die anyway. sigh.no reason to get butthurt.
You also sound a bit self-absorbed and self-important by the sound of your message by the way.
Oh and i didn't think the movie was all that either.

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it was a call back to one of his earlier films you boob. go watch transformers

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it was a call back to one of his earlier films you boob. go watch transformers


I would have thought that my original post on this matter made it quite clear I knew that. My objection to the idiot in front of me was that he was trying to get EVERYONE in the cinema to see that he was a member of the cogniscenti by laffing his head off at the "in joke". He's got puss for brains; what's your excuse. Oh, just had a closer look at your avatar. You got splinters in your dome, and nothing else...

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No, you didn't know that. Stop trying to save face. Trier isn't for you, this is the first film you saw of his and you didn't like it. Move on and go away.

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Marjeez wrote, re: an earlier post of mine:

No, you didn't know that. Stop trying to save face. Trier isn't for you, this is the first film you saw of his and you didn't like it. Move on and go away.


Yes, I did know that, and here is the quote in question from that post:

Yeah, kid is going to fall over a balcony and kill himself. Cinema patron in front of me started gaffawing his damn fool head off, just to show everyone that he had picked up on the in-joke.



I don't know why I bother. You are a troll, tho checking your IMDB history surprised me coz you obviously do not have puss for brains. But, you see, Marjeez, unlike you, I have some experience in bed with foxy chicks, and while a bit of slap and tickle is ok, I do think that the relentlessly nasty depiction of sex in Nympho is just soul-wearying, and indicates Trier's brutal porno mentality towards sex and women in general. I think he's a perv of a nasty kind, and a lot of actresses who worked for him would agree.

You don't see this coz

1. You are not female, but a male who is a kidult
2. You like movies like this coz you get off on sex which degrades women
3. You go to movies alone, coz you don't have a girlfriend and never will
4. You should get some Phizohex cos the pimples on your face have other pimples on them, and
5. watch out when you run to answer the door at night, coz you might fall over and break your pyjamas.

(BTW, I've seen ALL of Trier's stuff. Some earlier stuff is pretty good, eg. Dancer in the Dark, but now he is just coasting on his notoriety and churning out hours of drivel)
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Puss is a cat, or slang for a girl, or slang for a face. The viscid substance produced by suppuration is pus.

You're welcome.

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Ignore the morons, Myles. It's apparently a habit of fans of this movie to be absolutely diehard and get pissy if you don't agree that it's brilliant.

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I don't find ANYONE dying a "laff riot", but would you have minded as much had it been an adult about to fall off a balcony and someone laughing?

Either way it's just a movie, nobody died.

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Sounds like you haven't seen movie, and are making a joke. Actually, what you said is pretty much what goes on. It's 4 hours of every kind of sex, most of it pretty sick, that you can get. And yes, the little girl does get to send morse code very quickly. Movie did the opposite of what sexy movies usually do to me. I felt totally neutered, and I still do. It's been two days now, and I haven't had a sexy thought or nothing. I might sue Trier.

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Indeed. It was a smart addition to the movie. I said to myself... Not Again!

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Saw this at the headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival (Bell Lightbox) this evening.. I still cant get past that first scene in Antichrist with the death of the kid.. I had flashbacks to that scene and was hoping that he wasn't going to go that way since I don't know if I'd be able to get through the remainder of the film.. Thankfully for me I could.. Great 2 films regardless..

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Not to compare Trier with Kubrick, but in the documentary, "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" his assistant Jan Harlan talked about how in A ClockWork Orange you can see a 2001 score in the record shop. He interpreted it as kubrick becoming his own influence.

Perhaps Trier is becoming his own influence? A filmmaker finally coming into his own?

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Yes, explicit reference and homage of your own movie in your new movie is a sign of a truly humble filmmaker, full of humility.

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I agree it is - yet again a dark very funny moment - and not because it's the director quoting himself . Instead the director puts the viewer back in his place………the power of Von Trier's cinema is such that it infuriates a lot of viewers who get carried away with the (outrageous) " realism" of the scene. When he rubs our noses into an artificial doubling of a controversial scene, he shows us how artificial (fictional ) filmmaking is. Von Trier obviously would like to the audience to think/decide for themselves, not sit back and swallow whatever the director is feeding us at any give times.

Is a real child at stake here? no, nor is the child in Antichrist (even if we see him dying in that film)…..but von Trier would like the audience to consider the fact, assume our own responsibility as viewers that a chid could and frequently does die.
(and not survive by a faux Bruce Willis saving twist).

To feel the outrage (being deflated) and starting to consider our own responsibility, experience a thinking process is one of Von Trier's greatest strengths i believe. And sometimes his most "tragic scenes" are therefore also his funniest i believe.
The making of a "Sound of Music" musical where the lead gets hanged? ….these are a few of my favourite things…..
we don't really believe life is like a Salzburger mountaintop now, do we ?


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I've not seen the 'Antichrist' movie but read of that scene, so I can see how people found that funny.

The scene did remind me of a tragic comic I once read.

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That is such *beep* and obviously not intentional at all. I mean how can you take such far fetched ideas seriously.

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Except this is not limited to this one particular scene in Nymphomaniac. Von Trier regularly and repeatedly highlights the artificiality of his recent productions. Whether it's the obvious soundstage sets of Dogville and Manderlay or the constant fourth wall breaking interruptions of action that pepper The Boss of it All, von Trier consistently makes the artificiality of his own cinema and cinema in general a fundamental component of his aesthetic.

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But, if we were seeing a rape and murder of a child, that would be a different story, wouldn't it? For some reason, people love death but they can't stomach rape. Again, I have to point out, murder is worse than rape. Have you ever lost someone that you loved? Have you ever had that person taken from you forever by someone else?? This sh!t gets painful and traumatic... no matter how much women want to con us that rape is still worse.

It's kind of disturbing that the death of child would be so pleasant for everyone. However, if the movie started out showing a savage gang rape, you'd all be horrified. The movie rape is just as fake as the movie death of that child.

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Yes, I laughed too! : )

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I noticed that, glad the baby did not die
Joe turned into a really bad mother, I thought it was really bad that Jerome put him in foster care

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