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The Idiots (1998)
★ 6.5 · 647 ratings on TMDB
Take a long ride on the short bus.
A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.
DirectorLars von Trier
The emergence reading
The Idiots keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing rebellion, freedom, identity, class, culture.
zero-distanceDKrebellionfreedomidentityclassculture
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
