I did not watch this film alone, I watched it with my mother and the two of us could not be more different even if we tried. From the trailer and my knowledge of Lars Von Triers cinematic style I knew she'd hate it - and I was correct. To her this film was nothing more than a film about a bratty women with an uptight sister with little to no soundtrack and shaky camera work, yet to me it was once of the most beautiful, thought provoking and detailed films that I have watched to date and these differences in opinion are what led me to the question of how could this possibly be?
The fact is we both sat there for the same length of time, we both watched the same images and listened to the same music and heard the same dialogue delivered by the characters, yet it effected the two of us in completely different ways.
From this I was able to draw on the conclusion that you cannot please everyone, when creating a product you should include what you want to include and approach it from the angle that you see best, because someone is always going to love it in the same way some one is going to take a disliking to it. It is something that is subjective and question of how us as individuals interpret certain texts and this is what to me film is all about. Yes, including certain actors or soundtracks because you know that they will be popular is important as it can not be denied that products are made to make money. But when the soul desire of your creation is to please someone else I think that it can tarnish and taint everything that it means to be creative.
I doubt that my mother can even remember the name of the film, but to me it was able to express the delicate yet hardened nature of the human being and highlight that in times of crisis we all behave and react differently.Ultimately and what really inspired this blog post is that audience is important but you should not let the view or opinion of someone else limit nor censor your creativity.
