Poll
Question:
Most Disappointing Film
Option 1: Boyhood
votes: 8
Option 2: Fury
votes: 5
Option 3: Interstellar
votes: 7
Option 4: Nymphomaniac
votes: 11
Welcome to the 2015 Xixax Awards! These nominees have been carefully chosen by Xixax users and administrators. Vote in the poll above to help decide the winner!
Never has explicit sex been portrayed so dully onscreen, and I'm including the shittiest internet porn in this evaluation. I'm a huge Lars fan, his movies are generally stupid yet utterly compelling. Sometimes they happen to be profound. When I learned he was splitting this one into two I was totally excited and thought he had something big to say about human sexuality... or something. He didn't.
The two parts were a bore. The protagonist is nothing but a simple dopamine junkie. There's not much else to her at all. She needs sex, yes, but how is this any different from, say, how a heroin addict needs heroin? It really boils down to a very simple pathology. One so strong she abandons her child and any meaningful relationships she has in the pursuit of it. I think McQueen's Shame dealt with similar themes much better and in a much more interesting way. And the way Von Trier tries to elevate this simple pathology into the spiritual realm is, to be kind, clumsy.
I love Lars, but this movie was crap.
I thought it was a fucking masterpiece.
Voting has ended. The "winner" is:
Nymphomaniac