So, for some reason, our modern society that believes it’s so incredibly progressive and critical of all things often fails to turn its eye to areas it still holds dear. And remember: the Bible also advocates stoning and other ridiculous violence, it is not different than the Quran in that sense it’s just that Islam grew out of a much different breeding ground than Christianity. To this day they’re still ruining lives, across the world, as the reluctance to actually take care of paedophilia within its ranks has made the Roman Catholic Church a frightful institution. The Catholics, under whom I grew up, have an awful, secretive organisation that has destroyed and killed enough people in its antiquity to be considered a terrorist group.
If we’re pointing a finger we must point it in all the right directions. But never forget about all the other hideous effects of other religions, too. Due to extremist terrorism involving people who take Islam much too serious in a fundamental sense, most people want to turn the critical eye that way. In an increasingly secular world we still aren’t allowed to criticise religion as freely as we ought to, not always. On top of that list is the discussion surrounding religion, in particular here Christianity, in terms of its negative effects. However, as a filmmaker von Trier challenges himself and his audience at once to engage in a creative discussion about things that we don’t often talk about openly as a society. Many of them deal with difficult subject matter, both figuratively and quite literally in many cases, and they’re tough to watch in their respective ways. Yet that’s not to say each of his films are an exercise in endurance.
You’re never going to find a happy von Trier flick. Because one thing I’ve always felt interested me in his writing particularly is that there’s often a huge amount of his anxiety, his depression, which bursts onto the page.
I don’t care how foolish he may sound at times. Lars von Trier is one of my favourite auteur writer-directors in the industry. Starring Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, & Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm. Zentropa International Köln/Zentropa Entertainments.
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