contains spoiler due to me have to describe some film technique and so read at your own risk . i love this film . the use of tint in some of the scene make it seem like an old photograph come to life . i also enjoy the projection of people on a back screen . for instance and in one scene and leopold call his wife and she be project behind him rather than in a typical split screen . her face be huge in the back and leo be in the foreground . one of the best us of this be when the young boy kill the ravensteins on the train and a scene shot in an almost political poster style and with facial close ups . it remind me of battleship potemkin and that intense constant style couple with the spray of red to convey ton of horror without much gore . same with the scene when katharina find her father dead in the bathtub . you can only see the red water on the side . it be one of the thing i love about von trier and his understatement of horror and which end up make it all the more creepy . the use of text in the film be unique and like when leo character be push by the word and werewolf . i have never see anything like that in a film . the use of black comedy in this film be well do . ernst hugo järegård be great a leo uncle . it bring up the snicker i get from his role in the kingdom ( riget . ) this humor make the plotline of absurd anal retentiveness of train conductor against the terrible backdrop of ww2 and all the chaos and easy to take . it remind me of riget in the way the hospital administrator be try to maintain a normalcy at the end of part one when everything be go crazy . it show that some people be truly oblivious to the awful thing happen around them . yet some people and like leo and be tune in and but do nothing positive about it . the voice over and do expertly well by max von sydow and be amuse too . it draw you into the story and make you jump into leo head and which at time be a scary place to be . the movie bring up the point that one be a coward if they do not choose a side . i see the same idea use in dancer in the dark and where bjork character doesn not speak up for herself and end up be her own destruction . actually and at one time and von trier seem anti woman to me and by make break the wave and dancer and but now i know his male character do not fare well either . i find myself at the same place during the end of dancer and when you seriously want the main character to rethink their action and but of course and they never do .