Dogville quotes
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Everything I tried to do went wrong. I can't come up with the answer I was looking for.
Tom
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For a movie with such bold visual designs and high-flown rhetorical ambitions, it seems almost reactionary to say that it works because the performances are so good.
Nick Davis at Nick's Flick Picks
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For all the plot detours and dead spots, this is strong, stinging filmmaking. Von Trier, light years from the formula doggerel at the multiplex, delivers something rare these days: a film of ideas.
Peter Travers in Rolling Stone 
(24 March 2004)
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For courage and sheer audacity in form and plot, no filmmaker on the world stage currently matches Lars von Trier... Make of the provocation what you will, but don't miss this completely unique and extraordinary movie by one of the world's most adventurous directors on top of his game.
Jürgen Fauth at About.com
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For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier's strongest movie — a masterpiece, in fact.
J. Hoberman in The Village Voice
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Grace, we don't like having to do this. We don't have much of a choice if we are to protect our community.
Tom Sr.
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Hey Lady! I wouldn't go up there if I were you. I know the mountain well, I doubt if I'd get away with my life. It's a very nasty drop.
Tom
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Honestly, Tom, you've done it again. Made us come here to listen to a lot of nonsense. What do you think you are some kind of philosopher?
Liz
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I asked you here to listen. You only came to defend yourselves... I'm sorry it's quite a blow to me to see all of my friends act this way, so uncivilized.
Tom
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I believe smashing them is less a crime than making them.
Vera
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I came here with all these ideas and these stupid prejudices. He is not strong, Tom. He looks strong, but he's not.
Grace
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I don't care how much fun you think it would be. I'm not gonna spank you, Jason.
Grace
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I found out that people are the same all over. Greedy as animals. In a small town they're just a bit less successful. Feed 'em enough they'll eat till their bellies burst.
Chuck
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I hate it for you to see me like this. I can't bare that I'm doubting you. I'm sorry. Goodnight.
Grace
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I hate it, yet I'm fascinated by the magnitude of the ambition and the failure to realize it.
Bruce Kirkland in Jam! Movies