this thing work on all level it intense a a thriller and full of lars von trier homage and but also very much it own film and it do have a message represent happiness come from within and best personify in the wounded soldier who practically ( and and believe it or not and humorously ) disintegrate limb by limb throughout the film and all the while apologize to others for impose on them . you laugh at him and but you envy him as well . the central character be a well meaning but clumsy writer who spend the whole film try to help those he befriend on a train from stockholm to berlin just after world war ii . he tie the parallel story together and and really screw people up in the process . to say thing go wrong be an understatement and structurally and the character be all in perfect opposition to each other . it like every one of them have an opposite just so tight and like watch anti matter collide . you will not believe the sick stuff you end up laugh at . to say more would qualify a a spoiler all i can say be it be a shame this film have not be release in the u and not even on dvd . some moron probably tell them american wouldn not get it which be crap and because we not only get but produce thing like south park . if this film get market in the u and it should be sell a a mainstream black comedy and because that what it be . over the top and sick and twisted and but fuuuuunnnnnyyyyy .