Or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, where the twist is that the boy befriended by our hero is actually in a concentration camp.

Or maybe that Robert Pattinson romance movie where the twist is 9/11.

The creation and use of the atomic bomb was a terrible thing that still might cause untold death and misery. However, in defense of a movie I haven't seen, I think people were just happy the war was ending.

[Edit: I'm not defending the tastefulness of the movie, just the potential that the creators of the movie were…

Maybe Hollywood is really a giant brain with OCD that needs to keep doing the same things over and over, with different people, in the hope that it will finally get things right. But of course it never does and we all have to witness this sickness.

Knew this reference would be in one of the first five comments. So proud of us.

"Did you bullshit last week?"

Cigarette was God all along? That makes a lot of sense, actually.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no.








No.

February 2016? That's a long time. I could be dead by then.

"Occupation?"

"Stand-up philosopher."

"What?"

"Stand-up philosopher. I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension."

"Oh, a bullshit artist!"

I've been reading the Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, who I had never read before. I loved the early, first-person ones the best, but they're all great. The happiest reading surprise I've had in years.

I feel like Orson Welles should have talked him into doing it again.

I just watched Franju's Judex last night. Interested in watching some more now. I'm guessing this one you're describing isn't available on disc yet.

I completely agree. I just think that the "God-bothering" aspect of AA isn't as bad as people think. There are certainly other ways to stop drinking, and Von Trier definitely should try them when he wants to stop.

From what I've heard (always from atheist alcoholics), the religious stuff is all very vague—it's not about God as a higher power, but just about submitting to external forces to control something that you can't control from within. When it works, people are very happy with it.

He does, but I think he says a lot of that crazy stuff because he's a manic-depressive drunk. That seems to underlie a lot of these crazy LvT stories. I love his movies, and can totally empathize with his problems, so I just hope he gets help if he needs it and continues to work.

It's a day ending in 'y' somewhere!

Does that mean very little Mathieu Amalric screen time? That's not good.

New Desplachin! And it's the sequel to the one movie of his I haven't seen. Well, gotta fix that one this weekend.

He'd be an Uber driver now.

Uncle Joey likes to murder people's spouses. There: investigation closed.