Originally posted by Chris Knipp
Why can't you see how people would find his films an ordeal to watch? Surely you know that I'm not alone.
Denby's New Yorker review calls it "pedantic, obtuse, and unwatchable".

Von Trier's next film is a story about slavery set in the American South in the 1930's, though I'm sure he knows that slavery was legally abolished over 50 years before that time. That contradiction must be the "import" of this film. How novel.