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Stellan Skarsgards interviews on this movie annoys me...

posted 9 years ago by elisabethskoven
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Having read up on Nymphomaniac interviews from Stellan Skarsgard it's clear he misunderstands his character and what the meaning of his character is. He says the end just shows Seliqman didn't quite understand, that he was too naive to understand you couldn't do such a thing (try to have sex) and that it shows she was really *beep* up because she killed him.

No that's not it, but it's typical of actors to want to defend their characters. The end shows something deeper and references back to the whole conversation they had had about asexuality (yeah right!)hypocracy, his own creepy speeches about dobbelmorality etc. The character was basically never listening to what she said, he was just mindlessly condoning every one of her behaviors and had creeped me out long before the ending. Stellan should have played his character even more creepy so that the many who didn't pick up on that wouldn't have been so surprised by the ending.

Stellan also says he understands people being hurt and angry by the ending and LVT has an attitude of "Don't *beep* believen interviews what I'm telling you in this story' He has to destroy his own story, one way or another, it's an urge he has"

I'm sorry, but LVT is the artist and the creator and I find the ending genious. I don't find a beautiful ending of this story interesting at all, whereas this makes the audience reflect and discuss.

Stellan, please shut up and try to understand your character was a megacreep all along.

[–] osmundbullock 9 years ago

Thanks for the A1-grade spoiler.

I've just watched Vol. 1, and was looking forward to Vol. 2 - but now, thanks to you, I know what happens at the end...no possibility of a surprise there for me. Please, PLEASE try and use your brain before posting on this forum.

For what it's worth, your idea that a "creepy" character should be played sufficiently creepily to ensure that everyone knows exactly what they are like from the beginning is depressingly unimaginative, simplistic and unconnected with how human beings really are: you have very little experience of life if you think that everyone at all times flags their "true" character for all to see. In truth very few of us do. But unpredictability and inconsistency are two of the many things that make people interesting, and often either rather frightening or (in the opposite direction), a delightful revelation. And the same is true of a film that seeks to portray that honestly - it is only in Hollywood fantasy-land that heroes are permanently heroic, and villains are unremittingly villainous. Real people are far more complicated than that.