Remember: SOPA/PIPA hasn’t disappeared for good: look for it to be reintroduced under a new name, or inserted into other legislation that has no connection to Internet piracy.

I was talking about RAVE/MDMA culture in particular, not all of house music, and just reciting statements made in the movie itself. I will gladly watch those movies because I’m interested in those subjects, but I don’t think I was incorrect. From Wikipedia: In the late 1980s MDMA, known by that time as “ecstasy”, began to be widely used in the UK and other parts of Europe, becoming an integral element of rave culture and other psychedelic-influenced music scenes.

Also from Wikipedia: In the late 80s, rave culture began to filter through from English ex-pats and DJs who would visit Europe. However, rave culture’s major expansion in North America is often credited to Frankie Bones, who after spinning a party in an aircraft hangar in England helped organize some of the earliest known American raves in New York City that maintained a consistent core audience. After this, hundreds of smaller promotional groups sprung up across the east coast, and later the west coast, causing a true “scene” to develop.

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The most scary thing about the whole brouhaha is the knee jerk reactions from media and public and the band wagon that followed.

No only did Von Trier repeatedly state during the press conference that he was joking and ofcause didnt have anything against jews ets. He also issued an apology a few hours after and another one later in the day to whomever felt offended.

Was it tasteless? yes. Was it funny? Yes, some of it was actually funny in a very ironic way. Like saying he wanted to to do a movie about the final solution on journalist.

I think the reactions from media and part of the public was hysterical, exxagerated and gave me alot more to worry about regarding todays media and human behaviour, than some tasteless jokes from a mad artist, who only is being let out in the sun light one week a year during Cannes.

Many times truly artistic geniuses has a free thought association flow and if you ask the questions they stream of thought becomes a stream of words, unfiltered. If you analyze what Von Trier said and compare it with other interviews and his cinematic history, he actually has a VERY good point.

They are not politicians or speach writers.

we’ve never met in person but I write for Screen Comment too. I liked your review, I saw this last night. I politely disagree with your viewpoint that their marriage is “dead,” though. I agree that the ending is improbable/schmaltzy/wishful thinking, but I liked that for once they made a movie about a relatively UNmessy divorce. Sometimes people just think they fall out of love when in fact they haven’t, and I think that they’re similarly complacent/mild people that DON’T need a midlife crisis/acting-20-when-you’re-almost-50 type of jolt in their life. They try that–or at least HE does–and it doesn’t really work. I think they could have gone into more depth about WHY the divorce happened but I didn’t get the impression that it was doomed.