it be not every film job to stimulate you superficially . i will take an ambitious failure over a mass market hit any day . while this really can not be describe a a failure and the sum of it part remain ambiguous . that indecipherable quality tantalize me into watch it again and again . this be a challenging and provocative movie that do not wrap thing up neatly . the problem with the movie be in it structure . it inpenetrable plot seem to be wind up and just a a second end be tack on . though everything be technically dazzling and the movie be exactly too long by that unit . the long delayed climax of leo awaken come about 20 minute late . great cinematography often come at the expense of a decent script and but here the innovative camera technique offer a wealth of visual idea . the compositing artifice be provocative and engage while a character be rear project but his own hand in the foreground isn not . the world depict be deliberate and treacherous and absurd . keep your eye peel for a memorable and technically astonishing assassination that will make your jaw drop . the composition be stun . whomever choose to release the ( out of print ) videotape in the pan and scan format must have never see it . where be the dvd . it be unfathomable how anyone could give this much originality a bad review . you should see it at least once . you get the sense that von trier bite off more than he could chew and but this movie end up be rich for it . i suspect he be familiar with hitchcock foreign correspondent in which devious european also manipulate an american dupe and several welles movie that take delirious joy in technique as much a he do . all von trier movie explore the plight of the naif amidst unforgiving society . after zentropa and von trier move away from this type of audacious technical experiment towards dreary and over rat and un nuanced sap like break the wave and dancer in the dark .