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The Element of Crime (1984)
Movie #1,142 • Ranking Lars von Trier #4
Let it be known that during this LVT filmography viewing I made the executive decision to only ever watch full director filmographies in chronological order. That had always been my preferred method, but I thought it would be best if, from time to time, I mixed up the order for [insert reasoning here]. This is the sixth or seventh Trier flick I've consumed (depending on how you want to count his two early shorter films and both the first two seasons of his Danish TV show) and it's essentially ground zero for the man's career. It's as weird and as bold of a debut feature that I've ever seen.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that I am now starting at the beginning and only going forward, because everything about this felt like a shock having digested some of his other work, most notably: his prime "Golden Heart Trilogy" of films (1996-2000) and his most recent work, 2018's The House That Jack Built. It felt like a different director and I say that in the most positive way. Some similarities arose, naturally. The sepia tones were visually similar to The Kingdom's (though more on this later). The conversational voice-over between main character Fisher and his Cairo hypnotist felt like a direct through-line to how the character of Virgil functions in Jack. And the general "frustrated search for something largely intangible that will ultimately disappoint if not fully horrify" evoked pretty much everything I've seen by the man in some way.
But structurally and compositionally, this felt like a whole new world. In fact, in many ways, it is a complete invention of Trier's. This "Europe" consists of fictional cities and towns where it's always night and everything is drenched in liquid. Despite a few grounding allusions, there is no specific state or country, just this cold, wet dystopia broadcast under yellowy sodium lights. The sets used and built for this are fantastic, each a kind of micro-labyrinth, a small mystery onto themselves cutting against the larger noir framework of the movie's plot: a man is on the hunt for a serial killer of small girls before he strikes again. Detective Fisher (Michael Elphick) navigates this spaces in a literal daze, as the entirety of the action is presented as the memory of a man, now an expatriate in Egypt, spilling his guts to a guy with a monkey on his shoulder. This is the first of two primates to get screen-time. The second, notably of the lower order, Fisher finds in a gutter, scared to death and confused, perhaps a stand in for the audience….
I believe that guy is a loris. To start your film with monkey and end it with a loris speaks to some theme of reverse evolution. The fascist nightmares we see are a product of no less. In fact, this – coupled with the elements of his earlier student work and up through his unfortunate "I'm a Nazi" comments – provide much of the framework for understanding Trier's motives on a larger scale. I do believe it goes beyond simple provocation and is worth explorin. I think he's trying to make sense of a world still drying out from the tsunami that was WWII. But I'll put a pin in it that for now before I get to watch the rest of his films.
The Element of Crime is not a movie made for easily digestible 'understanding' or textbook mystery reveals. Even when you get the gist/uncover the trick, he throws a mysterious postscript that shrouds things further. I'm still trying to make sense of these manic bald men…
LVT created a world here. His stellar framing, innovative shots, and glorious use of light all cut against the frantic, obtuse and occasionally obscene script in such a delightful way. Sure, maybe it's all an amalgamation of influence (certainly Andrei Tarkovsky and Lynch's Eraserhead among others) but it's still wholly more than the sum of its parts.
I took a weird route to get to this beginning. In a way, I'm glad I did, but I'm even more excited to keep going forward.
SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier’s movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023
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me rn and probably tomorrow.
proship dni
#this was just cause it was funny and I can't think enough to draw#I'm tired. I wanna lay down but I shouldn't nap.#I've been applying for jobs non stop this week guahh#But this. This is whats keeping me going.....#selfship#self ship#selfshipping#selfshipper#yumeship#yumeshipper#selfship meme#self shipping#selfship community#proshippers dni#proship dni#🖌⚰️ ♡ Iggalicious shitposts !!!
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Celegorm and Curufin explaining the Luthien situation to Maedhros
#celegorm#Feanorian scribbles#turkafinwe#Curufin#atarinke#maedhros#maitimo#nelyafinwe#the silmarillion#lay of leithian#Luthien#The feanorians#Huan#Silmarillion memes#Incorrect Silmarillion quotes#Funny#jrr tolkien
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| Don't leave me All by myself in this world |
#zakkura#zack fair#cloud strife#ff7#final fantasy vii#las!art#finally drew them again after the game was released#something bigger than just a meme#i so needed to#and kinda got to vent this way about how meh i am about zack's storyline in rebirth#so i went for my fave thing about the whole game#because i'm predictable#with forget me nots and the blood in cloud's hair.#i love their relationship (romantic or not) so much#my fave aspect of the game#my babies my sweethearts#i love them so much okay#i need to lay down now
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they should invent eyesight that doesn't go bad from reading fanfiction on your phone 24/7
#at night laying down in the dark 200k words#don't fail me now eyes#fanfiction#ao3 memes#archive of our own#fanfiction.net#nalu fanfiction#iwaoi fanfiction#soukoku fanfiction#nalu#iwaoi#soukoku#skk#dazai x chuuya#natsu x lucy#kagehina#kagehina fanfiction#fanfic memes#fanfiction memes#ao3#fairy tail#ao3 fanfic#ao3 feed#ao3 funny#ao3 fic#ao3 meme#fanfic meme#fanfiction meme#fyodor dostoevsky#bsd fanfic
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Transcript:
Use your words? Ugh. Fine.
Meow. Meow. Meow. Nya~ Purr. Meow.
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#gabriel ultrakill#ultrakill#and afterwards i get called out 😭 my personal twitter acc catching strays (now abandoned)#'I better not find out about that one later via a meme of someone laying in bed listening to this" (paraphrasing)#LEAVEMEALONE.....#IT WAS ONLY 2 POSTS.............
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i've been laughing at this tiktok for the past 10 minutes (source)
#like between the amazin practical work#and the laying on the floor while blasting caramelldansen meme#this is gonna be in my head for a while#toh#the owl house#emperor belos#i dont remember his human name
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i was playing it with my younger sibling watching and this came out
#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#mouthwashing spoilers#mouthwashing jimmy#mouthwashing curly#mouthwashing fanart#art#digital art#meme#funny#so funny#im going to now go lay in my bed and spin the characters in my brain like rotisserie chicken#or is it sausage#what#wrong organ
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as if he wasn't a clown himself
(more bg3)
#i can see him end his reverie super early and just go out#steal shit#come back to camp as if nothing happened#“when did we get all those suppies?”#“mh? oh they were just laying around figured they would do us more good than their previous owner”#“ASTARION.”#my posts#edit#bg3 memes#astarion bg3#text post meme#astarion text post#wyll text post#text posts#baldur's gate 3#baldurs gate astarion#astarion ancunin#wyll ravengard#bg3 wyll#bg3
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Then it came Jade's turn:
#was talking w a friend and i told him that jade looked like he was inviting u to lay down w him#then he told me it looked like his arm went numb instead#AND IT MADE SO MUCH SENSE???#as for floyd it looked like he was abt to nuke u if u went into his trap#(which is laying down w him)#puodraws#twst floyd#twst jade#twisted wonderland#twst meme#yuusona
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#why did i make this#jujutsu kaisen#gojo satoru#getou suguru#satosugu#jjk#aphelion.txt#geto suguru#suguru geto#satoru gojo#Guess who isnt over hidden inventory/premature death arc in 2024........................#laying awake at night thinking abt their uncomplementary coping methods but at least the meme makes me laugh#🌏#🐉
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merlin & arthur, in camelot: we made it!
knight, left behind for the umpteenth time: do i mean nothing to you?
part 2
part 3
#yh i know knights are meant to lay their life down for their king#but just imagine your king#at the face of any danger#grabs his manservant by the scruff of his neck and makes a run for it#bbc merlin#merlin#arthur#package secured#memes that were divined to me in a dream (took undeserved nap before deadline)
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#bonus: falls in love with the character the moment they lay eyes on them#take a shot for every time I’ve made a meme with this template#Jaal#jaal ama darav#halsin silverbough#halsin#mass effect#baldurs gate 3#bg3#mass effect andromeda#mass effect jaal#me4#bg3 Halsin#baldurs gate#bioware#larian studios#ea games#rpg games#Durge#Tav#bg3 Durge#dark urge#bg3 Tav#mass effect Ryder#Scott Ryder#Sara Ryder#Halsin x Tav#Halsin x Dark Urge#Jaal x Ryder#pathfinder Ryder
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"Bad Thingol Takes" Bingo Card
Well guys, I've reached my limit and decided to create a bingo card for all the awful anti-Thingol takes that exist out there.
Feel free to use it if you want!
I might make some more cards for other characters too...
#the silmarillion#silmarillion#the silm fandom#silm fandom#silm memes#elu thingol#thingol#elwe singollo#elwë singollo#doriath#sindar#beren and luthien#lay of leithian#children of hurin#the children of hurin#tcoh#narn i chin hurin#bingo card#jrr tolkien#tolkien#tolkien tag#tolkien memes
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blue wala lay's has its separate fandom
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Reading Naruto 393 be like:
#Visual representation of me right now#i'm laying on the ground like them#uchiha itachi#uchiha sasuke#naruto#naruto shippuden#naruto manga#guya reads naruto#guya posts#naruto meme#naruto memes#sasuke uchiha#itachi uchiha
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