Sorry, this movie sucks

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Fantastic!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

this movie's director and producer insisted on slaughtering animals, the movie was produced in 2005, and the director and producer still want to be vicious like they were in the society 50 years ago. Will not watch any movie produced by these cold-hearted and money hungry director Lars Von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Even more ridiculous, Peter Aalbæk Jensen felt like it was not a big deal, and showed how much he didn't care about audiences upset over the scene by a very lame response, which tells that he had no regret and won't care about animal cruelty, I guess only money can fulfill his soul. From then on I keep boycotting the movies produced by these scumbags, and I believe these two douche bags will pay back the price if not their current lives they will pay back in their next lives for slaughtering animals to gain fame.

I just finished viewing this movie (Manderlay) and am still trying to catch my breath. As an African American woman who is 60+, I have history on the race relations in America. Raised in Washington DC during the 60s, I was at the March on Washington. In school, I questioned the validity of Black folks and their contribution to this country. I was amazed when finally reading about the contributions of Africans not only to this country but the world. As an actor in theater and film, I found this movie flawless and knew after 10 minutes that someone outside of the USA wrote the script. I loved this film, found it by accident, and will research to determine if it was ever shown in this town. Beautiful piece of work but I agree that for most Americans, it will not set with them easily. I would make it required viewing for high school and college students. Well done

"Hey, we've decided to basically do Dogville again, with the same kind of staging and storyline." "Cool, I loved Dogville." "And it's going to be about a slave plantation and be a critique of white liberal paternalism.""Sweet.""Except we can't get Nicole Kidman again so we'll have Bryce Dallas Howard playing the main character instead.""Well, that's a... pretty significant downgrade, but I guess it's not fatal." "As the movie goes along we'll have her become a part of the community as they struggle through their first year of independence, dealing with lots of challenges. And they'll be all these times when she jumps to conclusions about something that seems evil and then later it seems necessary." "That sounds like it could be pretty powerful, if a bit didactic." "So in the end the natural conclusion is that she finds out that the slavery was actually beneficial for all of the blacks and actually instituted by them to keep everyone in a place that made them happy.""...wait, what?" "And the proud African caricature who's been in the film for the last two hours will turn out to be a drinking, gambling, lying 'pleasin' n*****' who needs to be whipped for his own good!" "You know, this film is starting to sound pretty racist." "We can't be racist! We're Europeans critiquing America!" "Yeah, whatever. Well, you almost had me there."

My first, belated run-in with von Trier is this hyper-extended, unfathomably brutal condemnation of white youth activism's ahistorical egotism. At least, that's what I got out of it: the loathsomely self-righteous Bryce Dallas Howard's attempts to 'educate' a community of newly-freed Southern slaves and their masters may be intended as a metaphor for globalization or something, but there's more than enough to chew on right there on the surface. Especially for someone who has spent his own time wrestling with the culture-bound, missionary pitfalls of liberation rhetoric. The minimalist lines-on-the-studio-floor design job directs your full attention to the brilliant cast, who seem perfectly and improbably attuned to this snooty outsider's vision of America. On this evidence von Trier would be this century's Carl-Theodor Dreyer: brilliant and compelling, but not exactly the life of the party. My attention never wandered, and it's a good thing because otherwise I wouldn't have enjoyed the full impact of the mind-bending wrap-up. Docked a mark for being so hard to endure, even though (or because) that's the point.