I try to remember it, it might not be 100% accurate: "Do you know what is characterizing our age? - Hypocrisy! People who tell beautiful lies are acclaimed and accepted, they form the majority the few ones who tell the truth, often uncomfortable, are rejected!" Von Trier plays with two opposite characters: a nymphomaniac (probably more a being desperate to understand life meaning and get out of the beaten track than anything else), who never finds happiness in her search, so she goes further and further, and a 60 years old virgin who lives alone and finds his happiness in books. I found the explicit key of the movie in the second part. I loved the way the chapters telling Joe's life are separated by the intermezzos: her dialogs with Seligman, his erudition, her intelligence shadowed only by the all pervasive guilt feeling. The idea of a Sheherezada tail, nowadays, makes the background. After watching the first one, yesterday, didn't have patience for see the second part. I include in my review the volume II as well. Brilliantly constructed, well directed, with lot of imagination and using many techniques (although I'm not a specialist). This is the best movie I've seen from Lars Von Trier.
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