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Idioterne (The Idiots)

I love the word “Idioterne” for some reason. And I am in love with this movie. I’ve read here and there that people found this movie dragging and too slow-paced. Usually I also cannot stand slow-paced movies, but this one didn’t feel slow to me at all. Maybe I was too much into the whole subject, and to be honest, despite all the laughters, I’ve taken the movie pretty seriously.
Despite its simple storyline, I didn’t exactly found it easy to interpret the movie. I didn’t put much effort into analyzing it though. ^^;;; Basically I think this is a movie about not being like the others, some self-identification stuff. About what it means to be “idiotic” and how people perceive it, so it makes it definitely a socio-critical movie. I’m just not really sure in which way it exactly is socio-critical: Lars von Trier says that it is not about how the whole society is crap, and I don’t have this impression either.

We’ve managed to get the 2-disc edition from our videotheque and watched most of the extra footage as well – damn, that was insightful and interesting. It was especially interesting to get to know a bit more about Lars von Trier, even though these infos were about this movie and not about Dogville, my favourite of his movies so far. I haven’t watched that many movies and I definitely plan to watch “Breaking the Waves” and “Dancer of the Dark” one day, even though those tragic stories scare me off a little bit. I don’t like *really* tragic stories, just so you know.
Lars von Trier reminds me so much of Kafka, for some reason. They both seem so psychologically wrecked to me XD We watched the documentary about the ‘making of’ of the movie and ended up calling him Emo-Lars. Oh my! But his paranoic character must be one of the reason why he’s such a genius at making movies, so he’s forgiven. (Just like Kafka is forgiven for his emoness. *hrr*)

One other interesting factor of the movie obviously is the concept of Dogma 95. It started off a little bit difficult for me because I got a slight headache because of the camera, but I got used to it after about 10 minutes so it’s okay. All in all, I really like this concept – I also like the “set up some rules, it can be just anything” idea. Even though they don’t follow Dogma 95 anymore and have kind of grown out of it, I still think that this is a very original and creative idea.
We watched the trailer to “The Celebration”, the first Dogma 95 movie and were totally hooked. (Or at least I were.) Now I’m really really interested to watch more of these movies, namely:
* The Celebration
* Italian for Beginners
* Mifune
* The King is Alive
in this order.

Aaah, how great it feels to have finished these blogposts *haha* I feel like I’ve gotten a bit out of writing so that it takes me more time and effort to write these.