Nymphomaniac Vol I and II. I have done good with not reading any comments, reviews and opinions. It is a long movie - over 4 hours (and if we talk about the uncut versions it could go up to 5 hours) if you watch both of the parts together. It is something extraordinary, explicit and crossing the boundaries if you are both prepared and not prepared.It could be repulsive because it touches other human beings including yourself. It opens wounds and asks questions but does not give you any answers. You cannot be just a viewer while watching it, you are caught in the act along with her. Charlotte Gainsbourg. It is not a porn movie as you would think that it is. You would love it to be porn because it could be easily assimilated, absorbed but IT IS NOT. It is a life sentence for the main character. It is a study of depicting this character and in that sense it is a movie telling her story, fictional or non-fictional,true or not.The story is divided into chapters, the parts of her life. The film is well-balanced between both of the protagonists: Gainsbourg and Skarsgård. They are the both sides of the human equation.They are the plus and minus, the devil and the saint, the whore and the monk.You cannot expect mediocre/in-between/golden medium from Trier because he is non of those. Trier deals with extremes and if it involves gore, penises, v
..s, death, masochism, sadism,homosexuality, suicidal tendencies, and even paedophilia as part of the the spectrum of the human sexuality you have to accept it because if you do not you do not accept the life and the surrounding reality.And hey, let's not forget:it's not a propaganda, it's just someone's story,take it or leave it. The actors are what they should be:too far from Hollywood and too good to be true but they are so truthful that it could be scary for someone (or taken as porn as mentioned previously).I liked very much the little forgotten Christian Slater. He adds a lyrical tone to the movie and his death strangely contradicted to his (forever) youngish face is an allegory of how we remember the dying people.How the memory filters the presence of the loss and how it deals with it are some of the other questions. The music including Rammstein, Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild, Shostakovich, Cesar Franck , etc. is a precise choice for a movie from 2014- a sentimental journey from point A to point B with ups and downs,enhancing the good photography, poetic language and metaphors. Now with the comparisons. Watching such an extreme movie, as I described it few lines earlier I will not diverge too much but to me it has echoes from Pasolini, The Night Porter, Fassbinder, and maybe a little bit of the early Polanski like The Tenant and Cul-De-Sac. Final note: Lars Von Trier is BIG.
Review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
