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Film John Manoussakis

The Incarnation as Condemnation in Lars von Trier’s ‘Dogville’

Lars von Trier’s Dogville (2003) offers us an alternative interpretation to the mystery of the incarnation than what Christianity has traditionally come to understand in Christ’s humanization. Instead of the possibility of salvation, Dogville suggests Christ’s incarnation as the possibility of a universal condemnation. The story of God-becoming-man remains more or less the same; yet the conclusion reached is …

Film John Manoussakis

JACK HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

A Commentary on Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2019) Whose house? Which Jack? From the beginning it was a matter of material. After all, all creation, production, and construction must begin with matter. The material Jack uses as the instrument for his first in a series of murders was a car jack. …