Dogville

Many continuity issues (hats on/off in alternating shots etc) are entirely deliberate.

There are a large number of quick cuts throughout the film which serve to disorientate and confuse the viewer.

The continuity in these cases is never precise and is as much a part of the final film as the script.

When Chuck takes the scarf from Grace's neck it shows up two shots later, then is gone again in next shot.

When Jack McKay admits that he is blind, he says "In Switzerland they call it the Alpengulen.

" It's in fact called Alpenglühen.

Lars Von Trier is one of my favorite directors of all time, so I went into this film expecting to like it, but I was not expecting this film to be (arguably) his best. Like all of his other films, Dogville was very dividing among critics and audiences (even though it is one of his better received).

Filmed in a theater set, no real objects except the characters but very successful however. The movie is very surprising by the keen changes of the all characters' attitudes against and thoughts about the strange visitor came to their little town in need.

It's pretty obvious that Grace's name represents something more than just a random name. In whole of the film her behavior, actions, reactions are not something that would be considered as "normal" human behavior in such circumstances.

At first I was unsettled by the fact that the movie was 3 hours long. The beginning was a little slow in pace, but as the story progressed the time mattered less and less.

I was never fond of Nicole Kidman as an actress as I find her stunning beauty seriously distracting. That being said, she was magnificent in this movie playing a frail, idealistic and stoically beautiful fugitive.

If you have never heard of Dogville (2003) you are not alone. Three hours is a lot to invest in what some call a blatantly anti-American diatribe in an experimental hybrid of theatre and film.

In a stark set of chalk outlines for walls and spare furnishings inside those "walls" a story unfolds in the 30s, as most of his flicks do. A young woman shows up in a secluded mountain hamlet in Colorado running from the laws.

Grace Mulligan (Nicole Kidman) is on the run from the mob in the Rocky Mountains. When she stumbles upon the tiny village of Dogville, a town of fifteen, she seeks refuge among its citizens.

This movie was the most torturous 3 hours of my existence. The idea of having no set could work, if the movie had a plot that was actually interesting.