tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post6898596423280474296..comments2024-02-09T06:15:27.088-08:00Comments on josh barkey: Review of Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves"JOSH BARKEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-44780690092891823162011-06-16T07:06:51.564-07:002011-06-16T07:06:51.564-07:00Thanks for that, Phillip. I think "excruciati...Thanks for that, Phillip. I think "excruciating" is an exceptionally good word for "Dancer in the Dark." I think its impact on me may have had something to do with where I was at the time, relationally speaking. Nothing particularly earth-shattering about the idea that experience shapes perception, I suppose. <br /><br />I like your take on "that atheistic rage of abusing God for not having given us what we want." Well said... I'll have to mull on that.JOSH BARKEYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-91362272387554563242011-06-16T05:54:01.123-07:002011-06-16T05:54:01.123-07:00Fascinating, I found Dancer in the Dark excruciati...Fascinating, I found Dancer in the Dark excruciating and couldn't maintain interest, whereas Breaking the Waves enthralled me, and I'm no film snob I assure you, but I understand how the deals we make with our notion of the divine have a way of being answered in a manner which destroys our simplistic vision of God as good, that God's answer tends to expose the utter deceitfulness of our hearts and leads us to that atheistic rage of abusing God for not having us given us what we want. This film explores this in profound ways and offers the only Christian answer.philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760366938334041805noreply@blogger.com