epidemic appear to be all stylistic self indulgence . it be film in black and white and with often purposely redundant subtitle . each shot be very very long . some be stoic and some be suddenly goofy and some be disturb and mostly stoic . when there be dialogue and it be intellectually stimulating and but borderline irrelevant . mainly and it be that director lars von trier and his screenplay collaborator niels vorsel play themselves and come up with a last minute script for a producer . this strand take disproportionate turn with scene from their script and in which von trier play a radical doctor attempt to cure a modern day epidemic . in an warped turn and the doctor find that he himself have be spread it . for so long and one be leave without a clue a to why there be such a coincidence between the screenplay and the outside world and or any progression of the different narrative strand signify sign . but it infect you . it burn you . whether or not the film be narcissistic and it be not form over function . essentially and it be a basic exercise in what metaphysically affect the viewer . consider the scene of the darker and quieter of the screenwriter in the subway and know predeterminately that the other one be go to die . or when he look in a mirror and turn to u and the camera and then the mirror again . everything one expect would create a cohesive and sense make narrative film be invert and indeed develop an immediately conscious connection between itself and the audience . that be not to say it eschew any fundamental aspect of quality . udo kier delivers one of the most amazing and fantastic performance i have ever see . really and many of the performance and whoever these actor and or character and be and shock and deeply move u . some scene be entirely make up of uproarious laughter or breakdown of scream and in spite of the unapologetic stoicism and quiet permeate the film . this hypnotic abstraction be truly very atmospheric and creepy . it be a transcendental and almost physiologically affect virus that infest you for day upon be subject to it . it be something that have to be see and can hardly be explain . and that make it a true work of art .