The difficulties that I had to surmount to watch this movie will run into pages but that not being the primary concern here let me go to the effect that the movie had on me. It was two hours of shock, horror and repulsion. After this movie I don't think I am ever going to be shocked at any of those accounts or sights of sexual violence on man or woman. I don't even understand how the actors were able to carry it out. Friends who were sitting on either side swore that they are never going to bring me for the next version of IFFK. After the movie I was really interested to know what exactly did the director Lars von Trier want to signify with all that sexual violence on screen...he must have meant something. The reviews talked something about the biblical allusions and all...but here is my take on it. The present world is so full of violence and the movie employs a kind of alienation effect wherein the audience is jolted with such scenes that he sits up and realizes what he takes for granted is in fact a grave offense that may destroy mankind. It is intended to give a shock to the conscience of a society which teaches its children to be non- responsive and close their eyes to such crimes (and wait till it happens to you to take some action). I wonder if the eve- teasers and the rapists get the point...#!*%
PS: For those of you who are wondering why this post has no head and not tail, this is just a section from another post in another blog:-)
Finally a post on the IFFK. Where are the film buffs hiding? Still under the seats in cinema halls in Trivandrum?
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