Dogville

I have always liked movies as long as I could remember. Then I met this girl who was a member of the U Film Society at the school I was attending. She introduced me to all kinds of foreign films of different cultures, customs and different ways seeing lives. I finally got over her, but my love for films seems will last for life.

Nicole Kidman’s Dogville is one of the strangest films that I disgust but I cannot forget after watching it. In fact, I saw the movie more than 2 years ago. When I wrote down names of my favorite movies, Dogville keeps popping up in my head though I knew I dislike it and I will not ever see that movie again.

The irony is: my intense dislike of the movie is perhaps because it so successfully tells the truth of human hypocrisy. Nicole Kidman is a young woman in the movie who seeks refuge in Dogville, a small town of handful residents. People are so kind and nice at the beginning until they figure out she is really alone, helpless and open for exploitation. Then every man in town uses her as a free hooker and the women abused her with great cruelty. The story ends in a biblical fashion like Sodom and a terrible taste in the mind; it is like taking a bad trip and an unforgettable one.