This movie is a brilliant film which I can only imagine has come from an even more brilliant novel. Dogville shows a wide display of human emotions and capabilities. Moods change from fear to love, to contempt, to hatred, and finally into a state of incompassion which reaches beyond human nature. Or does it? What Dogville so accurately chronicles is the capability of mankind under certain situations to be cruel, without empathy. These same feelings of hatred, when combined with feelings of inferiority and superiority, create relationships like history has displayed through slavery and hate crimes, the side of human nature that we don't want to see.
Dogville is told in a simplistic "story book" fashion which parallels a fable or more accurately....a parable. Countless morals are revealed, some open and easy to interpret, while others are harder to understand. But it is surprisingly difficult to view much of this film. It sickens me to my stomach to see humans act this way, but they are not beyond our capability.
The thing to think about in the end is whether Grace gave into the hatred, reverted to her human nature, played God, or simply taught the world a lesson. A lesson that she had just, in fact, learned herself.
Dogville is told in a simplistic "story book" fashion which parallels a fable or more accurately....a parable. Countless morals are revealed, some open and easy to interpret, while others are harder to understand. But it is surprisingly difficult to view much of this film. It sickens me to my stomach to see humans act this way, but they are not beyond our capability.
The thing to think about in the end is whether Grace gave into the hatred, reverted to her human nature, played God, or simply taught the world a lesson. A lesson that she had just, in fact, learned herself.