I saw Dogville last night. It was… well, good. Actually great movie: the scenes, set concept (theater stage like setting) and lighting and photography was wonderful. Acting was great. But story was… depressing. People being sad, mean, unfair, taking advantage and passively accepting injustis. Benefiting from other poeple’s misfortune, to quote from the film. Like Anton Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya” but with surprising ending. One of the most surprising, shocking ending I’ve seen, up there with Usual Suspect or Fight Club but better. The goose bumps ending. It really got me down. To think that Mystic River and Better Luck Tomorrow got me down for days, this one is going to get me for weeks… hopefully not.
It is also unfair that those depressing, disturbing movie sticks with you but nice and happy films that I’ve seen recently fades from my memory quicker. Recent movies that I’ve seen from Netflix: Eat Drink Man Woman, Together, Good Bye, Lenin!, Monsieur Ibrahim, Frida, In America…. The first two on the list, both Chinese films, are especially great.
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