Breaking the Waves

[Keith Brecher]

At 04:51 PM 3/19/97 -0500, JULIUS RAPER wrote:
>Comparing this film to TP is no great service to TP.  The actress is
>brilliant and the premise (that a woman can dictate what her God says
>to her) is intriguing but not new in schizzy characters.  The ending is
>1940ish Hollywood, or a parody thereof.  Perhaps the title literally
>refers to the male lead's
>work on an oil rig off the Scottish coast--and metaphorically to breaks in
>brain waves experienced by both the male and female leads: he's knocked
>into a coma and she wigs in and out of the voice (presumably the mind) of
>God.  
> There's been a good deal of chatter about the portrayal of the woman at 
>the IPSA (Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts) site.
>				Jack
>
>As crazy as Bess is, BTW is still a great movie and doesn't damage TRP at
all. If anything hurt TRP, it was VINELAND. Sure I'd rather see TRP linked
to the films of Russ Meyer or Charles Band, but Von Trier's OK for now.
Regarding the meaning of the title: here's another literal suggestion: the
scene when Bess screams into the breaking waves. My original point about
the title's link to TRP is that it's an unusual phrase and appears in GR as
"the breaking of the wave." Besides TRP and Von Trier, I haven't seen that
phrase before. Have you?>
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