No one has talked at length or given any sort of substantial opinion of this film other than "i liked it" or "i hated it".Is this because no one understood it?,or even have an opinion on the film (that i can't believe,way too much went on in this film for no opinion!!) So if you have any thoughts on this film let them be heard!
"you're so money, and you don't even know it"
I have too many feelings about this film, I can't write them all down now. But I love the film, I really love it, it's one of my three favourites. I think it's sad that so many people hate it, but I understand, because it's so extraordinary and certainly not everybody's taste. Some elements seem really strange and surreal, and you have to think about them a lot. But I find Vinterberg's view on our society very intelligent and the way he made a story out of it is so beautiful. Joaquin Pheonix, Claire Danes and Sean Penn are just perfect. I like the idea about the dead bodies lying around everywhere, I think it is a brilliant metaphor for our every-day life, as well as Sean Penn's charakter. And I like the melancholy in it. The snow...The music is wonderful.
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Yep. Seeing you asked. Both brothers die in the snow during a set up escape bid...um actually I think all 3 die. The older one (Sean Penn) is stuck in the air and can't land because of global snow. He is expecting to die. Michael has double-crossed John and Elena under threat from the family. John discoves this when, wandering in the snow he picks up Michael's diary and sees and entry for the day of the shooting in the ice rink, that says "Morrison - Arena".
He sends his brother - ostensably - "back, to get help" so as not to alarm Elena. Eventually she dies of exposure just after telling John she loves him (yep, I agree - real convenient) and he lies down and dies next to her. Michael has already been overcome by the cold and died.
Ironically, if they hadn't tried to escape, they would have had a reprieve, seeing the false Elenas had been shot and the family still needed the real Elena to keep laying the golden egg. There must therefore have been a communicaion breakdown in the family for Michael to have continued with the phony escape bid. Or, more likely a script breakdown!
A real uplifting ending, eh! LOL
I read the statement by Thomas Vinterberg from the soundtrack, saying: "Through my eyes, the world is my wife, and my two daughters wearing pink dresses and ice skates."
I found that so fascinating, because while watching the film it really feels like that. It is *his* private vision, his inside, and those beautiful images he creates are very personal. I think that is what makes the film so outstanding that it could have impossibly been a box office hit, but that is also what makes it so wonderful and touching.
I like mainly black and white stuff, I disliked the film because it wasn't what I had expected, yet it was very intruging and I'm sure there was some deep meaning to it that I just didn't pick up on.
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