He's an ok actor,got nothing against him. I'm taking about his character here. Did he give off a weird vibe? Kinda creepy, but not necessarily in a pedophile way? Like for example, when young Joe and her friend are playing frog, he seems to know and has a weird grin as if he's thinking "girls will be girls". Her mom seems to know and disapprove but he thinks it's hilarious, whatever they're doing in the bathroom. Thoughts?
shareI saw that scene as a reference to another Danish filmmaker, Nils Malmros, who is not so well known outside Denmark, but is generally considered highly there, perhaps more highly than von Trier, who most (maybe tongue in cheek) think is a psychiatric case, at least the TV presenter said in her intro to Anti-Christ that he might consider getting professional help. But I digress. In Malmros' film Jens Ole, 5C ( meaning fifth grade in school) there is a scene of two young boys experimenting sexually in the bathroom, and the movie then explores how in adult life the main character has a neurosis because his father, who is also a doctor, discovered them in their play, and so is not able to form guilt free sexual relations with women. The doctor hammers on the bathroom door and loudly demands to know what they are doing in there. So von Trier takes that idea, twists it and shows the opposite. Here the doctor is more forgiving, even commending his daughters fascination with medical texbooks showing female genitalia, and instead it is the wife and mom who is the interloper.
shareVery interesting explanation. Thank you.
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