There's a sucker born every minute, & several of them are calling Dogville a masterpiece, fearful of being mistaken for the plebian hordes if they admit they didn't like it.
In reality the emperior has no clothes, & this is now official: director von Triers is not the genius he thinks he is. This comes off as badly written play about rural America by someone who knows diddly-squat about rural America.
It is minimally staged like a live theater performance & filmed as such. Lacking the immediacy of attending an actual live play, watching it at such a distance simply isn't interesting.
The actors couldn't get into it & turn in performances as phony as the largely empty set. The only thing it succeeds at is pomposity, without which it would just look cheap.
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