On Monday night, hundreds of people filed into the Cannes Film Festival theatre to watch the world premiere of The House that Jack Built directed by Lars Von Trier.
The Danish director is known for making films that push boundaries and his arrival at the festival was greeted by a standing ovation. But as the movie played out, the cheers faded to astonishment and disgust.
Some of the film’s scenes were so horrific, The Hollywood Reporter claimed 100 people walked out of the cinema.
Not because of the film’s violence, which some viewers would have expected from the Lars Von Trier’s movie.
But because of who the film’s violence was directed at.
The House that Jack Built is billed as a psychological thriller about a serial killer with more than 60 deaths to his name, played by American actor Matt Dillon, who views the mutilation and murder of women and children as art.
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According to the director, the film “celebrates the idea that life is evil and soulless, which is sadly proven by the recent rise of the Homo Trumpus, the rat king.”
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Why would anyone want to A) watch a film like that, B) act in a film like that, or C) make a film like that? Seriously side-eyeing Uma Thurman and Matt Dillon here. And isn’t Lars Von Trier known for making films like this, and not treating women he works with very well? This guy has serious issues. Makes me think if he wasn’t a filmmaker, we might be watching a true crime documentary about him.
But violence against men in film is fine?
https://www.theguardian.com...
Have a read of this, bull.
What a load of pseudo-academic psycho babble. At the end of the day, either extreme violence against anyone is wrong on film / as entertainment, or it is not. This might surprise you, but men feel pain when they are torn apart as well - so if you want to take screen violence literally, you have no leg to stand on to argue in favour of one gender but not the other. It is just so ridiculous as to be beyond any further comment.
That's a look at one movie and one specific act in that movie.
Hardly overwhelming evidence.
Some how, it doesn't seem as horrible when men direct violence towards men as men directing violence towards women. It also doesn't seem as horrible when women are violent towards each other. Maybe it's about the level playing field? Men are physically stronger than women therefore it just seems terrible for them to use their physical strength to harm the physically weaker sex. But then if The Rock harms Zuckerberg, I'd still think it's horrible. IDK