"Forget all the excuses - the 'childish fascination' or the 'all embracing humility' - for this is my confession: I, Lars Von Trier, am but a simple masturbator of the silver screen" - Lars Von Trier.
He makes provocative movies (the ones I've seen: Dogville, Dear Wendy, The Five Obstructions, The Idiots, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark), in a time when that's actually a rare feat. He has a new one, and this is a description from a review in the NYTimes...it sounds like a world I'm quite familiar with:
"Like all of Mr. Von Trier's films, "The Boss of it All," is a cold, misanthropic work that places no faith in institutions and in humanity itself. But it's also very funny. Those at the top of the corporate pecking order...are liars and manipulators. Below them are self-important fools, the blind leading the blind, playing walk-on parts that they delude themselves into believing are starring roles."
