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:	post by Murph at 2009-11-02 10:53:19

I'll admit the seemingly incoherent plot of this film is slightly off-putting, but to me it was just Von Trier melding tons of mythological (nature of surroundings, creatures, names), literary (three beggars, Nick), and European magic and even tarot into a storyline consistently engaged in a tug-of-war between the real (Dafoe, natural world...at times) and the mind (She, natural world...at times).

I think its problems with keeping a linear storyline which unravels into some greater meaning is due to the fact that Von Trier really fleshes the film out using his own (my opinion) understanding of the tropes I mentioned before. He's obviously not a master of history nor myth, yet I just find the premise of the film and its mood to be inescapable.

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