I'm thinking about buying a new dictionary so I can express myself correctly because I left the movies basically without expression on my face. Still can't find the exact word to describe it but I'll do my best.
In 'Nymphomaniac Vol. I' we enter in Joe's life to discover how is really to be a sex addicted and living with that - since the very beginning: her childhood problems, her lack of motherly love, her infinite connection with her purist father, her first perverse tendencies (and believe me this movie is so rich of great images and performances that I used to think impossible to reach). After 5 chapters of explanation I wondered what could happen in volume II...
The answer is, basically, everything.
'Nymphomaniac Volume II' is priceless, superb, in its own way so madly profound that you can't get one single word to describe it perfectly.
The (again) reference to the '3+5' already seen in the first volume is like a code to understand all of the movie's essence! Those numbers will always be an association to the first time Joe got intercourses, with Jerôme, to her deep pain and unbelievable disappointment to the succeed. She tries to avoid that sequence of numbers but she has no option but living it once again, this time just watching it happen in front of her eyes, by Jerôme, after being beaten by him.
'8' can't be considered just the sum of 3 with 5. '8' is the key. The key to the meaning and purpose of this all Lars Von Trier's story and the key to the beauty itself. '8' is an infinite symbol, turned 90 degrees (something that makes perfect sense when Seligman refers that everything we know - thanks to our daily routine - fastly becomes common and hides its truly meaning - to reveal it, we need to see it from another perspective) - that's why when you rotate that '8' you can see a reference to Joe's infinite desire to be accomplished and satisfied sexually.
Despite my long explanation I feel I cannot find enough words/expressions to describe 'Nymphomaniac' as it needs. Such beauty should be just seen and absorbed.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is a real woman. Her performance is stunning! I really enjoyed all the nasty moves of Stacy Martin but let's be honest: is easier for a young girl to accept and do a roll based on sex than for a woman who probably has kids in real life to do scenes like the one she is shared by two black-guys at some cheap motel room, just to experiment a new sexual sensation. All of it requires a lot of matureness and dedication but specially an open-mind that the majority of the adult actresses doesn't have.
Willem Dafoe shows himself to the world for a few minutes as a badass guy - you see... this one is one of those rare actors that every time he appears on the big screen everyone around you notice it.
With a great pity, Uma Thurman doesn't appear in this volume to fulfill my most depressive desires on a roll.
'Nymphomaniac' is probably one of the most complete masterpieces I've seen lately - has passion, has pain, has emotion, has fierce, has no shame talking about sex.
The violence showned will probably move the most sensitive ones. It really bothers me that people feel more uncomfortable facing a movie about sex than a movie about explicit domestic-violence. For all the haters.... this one has BOTH ;)
In 'Nymphomaniac Vol. I' we enter in Joe's life to discover how is really to be a sex addicted and living with that - since the very beginning: her childhood problems, her lack of motherly love, her infinite connection with her purist father, her first perverse tendencies (and believe me this movie is so rich of great images and performances that I used to think impossible to reach). After 5 chapters of explanation I wondered what could happen in volume II...
The answer is, basically, everything.
'Nymphomaniac Volume II' is priceless, superb, in its own way so madly profound that you can't get one single word to describe it perfectly.
The (again) reference to the '3+5' already seen in the first volume is like a code to understand all of the movie's essence! Those numbers will always be an association to the first time Joe got intercourses, with Jerôme, to her deep pain and unbelievable disappointment to the succeed. She tries to avoid that sequence of numbers but she has no option but living it once again, this time just watching it happen in front of her eyes, by Jerôme, after being beaten by him.
'8' can't be considered just the sum of 3 with 5. '8' is the key. The key to the meaning and purpose of this all Lars Von Trier's story and the key to the beauty itself. '8' is an infinite symbol, turned 90 degrees (something that makes perfect sense when Seligman refers that everything we know - thanks to our daily routine - fastly becomes common and hides its truly meaning - to reveal it, we need to see it from another perspective) - that's why when you rotate that '8' you can see a reference to Joe's infinite desire to be accomplished and satisfied sexually.
Despite my long explanation I feel I cannot find enough words/expressions to describe 'Nymphomaniac' as it needs. Such beauty should be just seen and absorbed.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is a real woman. Her performance is stunning! I really enjoyed all the nasty moves of Stacy Martin but let's be honest: is easier for a young girl to accept and do a roll based on sex than for a woman who probably has kids in real life to do scenes like the one she is shared by two black-guys at some cheap motel room, just to experiment a new sexual sensation. All of it requires a lot of matureness and dedication but specially an open-mind that the majority of the adult actresses doesn't have.
Willem Dafoe shows himself to the world for a few minutes as a badass guy - you see... this one is one of those rare actors that every time he appears on the big screen everyone around you notice it.
With a great pity, Uma Thurman doesn't appear in this volume to fulfill my most depressive desires on a roll.
'Nymphomaniac' is probably one of the most complete masterpieces I've seen lately - has passion, has pain, has emotion, has fierce, has no shame talking about sex.
The violence showned will probably move the most sensitive ones. It really bothers me that people feel more uncomfortable facing a movie about sex than a movie about explicit domestic-violence. For all the haters.... this one has BOTH ;)