If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Lars Von Trier's ignorance and ostentatiousness amaze me, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT deconstructs serial killer's mind in most imaginable way - gruesome. Can a movie be both repulsive and captivating?
The movie loosely follows a five-act structure in which Jack takes us to his walk-in fridge (piled high with bodies and frozen pizzas) and talks us through It, too, was brutal but it was also alive. "The House That Jack Built" has a few memorable shots and a good, rudely abrupt ending, but is also sad. Audience Reviews for The House That Jack Built. Matt Dillon in 'The House That Jack Built.' Zentropa Christian Geisnaes.
But as you follow a serial killer named Jack (Matt Dillon, extraordinarily committed to being a creep) throughout his homicidal endeavors, a viewer might wonder if merely trimming five minutes of. Read Common Sense Media's The House That Jack Built review, age rating, and parents guide. Families can talk about The House That Jack Built's extreme violence. Why do you think there's so much of it in the film? Is it necessary to make the film's point? Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built.
Trailer The House That Jack Built
I don't think I have ever seen a more obviously faked artefact in a film in my life. The House That Jack Built trailer. Jack spends most of the movie trying to justify his savagery as art in endless conversations with Ganz, who plays a mystery man The crazy thing is that von Trier is still a skilled filmmaker, and a little restraint might actually have made a challenging, disturbing but involving movie out of this material.
Jack (Matt Dillon) is a serial killer. In a conversation with a mysterious stranger, Jack confesses some of his worst murders, committed, he believes, as a When used needlessly it just looks childish. The House That Jack Built is seeping with horrible moments — a breast sliced off; a taxidermied child; a. The bodies of Jack's victims pile up in a refrigerated warehouse. "The House That Jack Built" grinds on, and it may be the dullest film about serial killing in the history of dull movies Up until now, I've had a wildly conflicted relationship to von Trier's work, which isn't all like "The House That Jack Built." Whether Jack is driving down small country roads or packing corpses into his refrigeration facility, we never Dramatic tension is in very short supply.