This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier''s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier''s films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel''s prophecy and Ricoeur''s symbols of evil, myth, and hermeneutics of revelation.
The films of Lars von Trier are categorized as extreme cinema, inducing trauma and emotional rupture rarely paralleled, while challenging audiences to respond in new ways. This volume argues that the spiritual, biblical content of the films holds a key to understanding von Trier''s oeuvre of excess. Spiritual conflict is the mechanism that unpacks the films'' notorious excess with explosive, centrifugal force.
By confronting the spectator with spiritual conflict through evil, von Trier''s films truthfully and prophetically expose the spectator''s complicity in personal and structural evil, forcing self-examination through theolo
