This is a warning, not a spoiler. Can some please please kindly explain the logic of this plot???? It's beyond all understanding. Russia, an oil producer, invades Norway, a competitor, to force it to KEEP producing oil which would keep prices lower - which would hurt Russia! And at the behest of the EU??? How crazy is that? And America doesn't exist in this scenario! Norwegians remain mostly passive and indifferent. Maybe one of the producers can reply. Explain the plot. I'm genuinely mystified. As far as I can see there is nothing remotely logical about anything that happens in this series. Watch it if you're indifferent to logic.
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License to Wed
(2007)
An Unintentioned expose of the predatory nature of "romance."
30 April 2011
Funny? A poor schlub that is forced to bend to every mindless whim of his high-maintenance spoiled fiancé? Through the whole movie she, with the help of the sadistic Robin Williams, emasculates the poor guy with one unreasonable demand after the next. Not for one second does she listen to his opinions or consider his needs. In the end, in the last two minutes, all is well and they live happily ever after when he manages to successfully jump through a million hoops and chase her all the way to Jamaica. This movie perfectly illustrates the exploitative nature of "romance" - keep buying the bitch everything she wants, bow and scrape - and in the end you may be granted a few years of listless sex before the inevitable divorce. There is a biological truth to males having to bring food to the female, to prove they are good providers - but this movie perfectly illustrates the infantilazation of the American female - the opposite of liberation, but a return to continued dependency and manipulation.
A Loving(?) Tribute to Film School Machinations
18 October 2010
Lars Von Trier was a notorious infant terriblé at his Danish film school, a mini Mussolini who felt compelled from an early age to drain the swamp of traditional Danish cinema with its age old reliance on "folksy" comedies. But twenty some years later he acknowledges his own foibles with this biting but sweet satire of film school machinations and the cement-headed teachers and state-employed film "consultants" that arbitrarily provide the funds and subsidies the small and always hard-pressed industry lives by here. But his alter ego, Erik is no cynical critic or ultra-ambitious manipulator, but instead a naive youth, unwilling or unable to conspire in order to get ahead - something Von Trier apparently never found distasteful or problematic. Von Trier has always been fueled by an ambiguity, his need to both elevate and castigate women, his knowledge of having to live in a world of fools and his remorse for his monumental sense of superiority. This need to have his cake and want to eat it too has caused him near paralytic depression at times, and this jolly film was a marvelous but brief elevator of his many mood swings. See it. Enjoy it. Though not directed by Von Trier, the film's production values are superb. Film students will love this film as they will think Von Trier is describing everyone in their world but them.
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