Would Like to Have Seen it Shot as an Actual Movie
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Manderlay
twelve_bar — 11 years ago(January 27, 2015 01:00 PM)
It might have worked. The whole shooting-a-play-and-editing-as-a-movie did not work at all. It takes the viewer out of the movie much more so that stage sets take the viewer out of a play.
I have to think that the director simply did not know how to shoot a movie-kinda-movie so the took the easy way out with the stage sets. Either that or the director wants to remind us every minute of the whole two hours that we are supposed to be learning an important lesson not just enjoying a story.
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ThreeSadTigers — 10 years ago(August 17, 2015 03:28 PM)
It takes the viewer out of the movie
But that's the intention.
I have to think that the director simply did not know how to shoot a movie-kinda-movie so the took the easy way out with the stage sets.
He's made plenty of movies that look like movies. The Element of Crime, Europa, Breaking the Waves, Melancholia to name a few. But the stylisations of Dogville and Manderlay are intended to work against the conventions of mainstream filmmaking.
Either that or the director wants to remind us every minute of the whole two hours that we are supposed to be learning an important lesson not just enjoying a story.
See, you do get it.
Maybe this just won't ever be your kind of thing. Perhaps try one of his other films; Breaking the Waves or Melancholia for instance.