lars von trier be a genius when he actually make a film and a he do with element of crime and europa and two visually stun film that i absolutely love . but here and von trier do not so much tell a story a tell a story about people write a story and then give u all too brief segment of that story . if von trier have just film the story about the doctor who try to cure a plague but instead end up spread it and we would have have another masterpiece . indeed and the segment that tell this story be wonderful . but to get to these gem and which make up perhaps 5 percent of the movie and we have to wade through intolerable stretch of 16mm excrement . lars and his friend think up this idea and visit this place and talk to udo kier and frustrate and infuriate the viewer with impossibly bore stretch of cinema verité . the experience be painful . in fact and i will deduct some credit for pain and suffering .