The Idiots
1998
Directed by Lars von Trier
We have now officially reached the "Mind Your Own Beeswax" portion of the List, which alludes to the way I have obtained the remaining titles. You always know when a movie is nearly impossible to locate that you are in for a slam dunk. This was just as terrible as I expected it to be.
A group of adults decide to behave in public as though they were mentally disabled, to challenge the establishment, or release their inhibitions, or I don't know what else. I guess it's to get a reaction from society, and get a reaction from us, the audience. If I'm required to forfeit a reaction, will they settle for dispirited and resigned?
Doesn't the graphic sex scene technically make this porn? I wasn't particularly bothered by it, but mostly because the movie had been so stupid up to that point that it made for a refreshing change of pace.
This is part of Lars von Trier's Dogma 95 Manifesto, which was really off to a spiffing start with this entry. I don't know if it is as difficult to find in other parts of the world as it was in my sector, but I would recommend avoiding this at all costs. Should be pretty easy.
Interesting Facts:
A favorite film of Tom Six, the creator of The Human Centipede trilogy. What a ringing endorsement.
English critic Mark Kermode was thrown out of a screening at the Cannes film festival for loudly heckling the film and yelling "Il est merde!"
I never saw this one when it was released, it just sounded too stupid. Recently it could be streamed from dr.dk (a Danish network) for free, but I still could not be bothered. There are not that many Danish titles on the List so it is extra annoying that this stupidity takes a precious slot.
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