Still spectacular. Way better than I remember even, honestly, at this age with all my attention and not as a film studies class curiosity I only sort of remembered.
Lars is a deep misanthrope, philosophically, and just as bathed in self-hatred for the artist, the writer or the thinker in himself; but once again that does not undo his genius to me, sorry. Every element works towards a cruel fable. An Old Testament Hobbesian parable. An anti-morality play for the…
