Now that Vera had received proof that it was in fact Chuck who'd forced his attentions on Grace, she was meaner than ever. Had Grace had friends in Dogville they, too, fell like the leaves.
Dogville quotes
Page 13 of 16It is like a child who doesn't want to take his medicine. They'll be furious at first, but in the end they'll see it is for their own good. Just don't be hateful. Don't be reproving. If anybody can do it, Grace, you can.
Tom
Nobody should be prevented from speaking their mind out of politeness. I'll wait at the mine. And if the vote says that I should leave, then I'll take the path across the mountains, while it's still light.
Grace
I think they like you here.
Tom
I hate it for you to see me like this. I can't bare that I'm doubting you. I'm sorry. Goodnight.
Grace
Dogville is not a masterpiece, nor is it an embarrassment. But it is a cinematic Rorschach test, as much fun to praise and to scorn as it is to watch.
Chris Vognar in The Dallas Morning News
Sarcastic humor, inventive staging and a brutal story combine to give Dogville the force of a bonfire, incendiary and beautiful.
Chris Hewitt in St. Paul Pioneer Press
Nearly as powerful as Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
This brilliantly acted film is a highly stylized, surprisingly successful experiment that sits somewhere between theater and cinema.
Ken Fox TV Guide's Movie Guide
Aesthetically sparse and thematically audacious, the searing work of a genuine provocateur
James Kendrick, at the Q Network Film Desk
Well, they couldn't really argue that anything had changed. But by not telling the police they felt they were committing a crime themselves.
Tom
Who but von Trier could make such a film? Who else would dare?
Liam Lacey in The Globe And Mail
If you want my Ma to like you, and let you stay. You'll just have to be nice to me.
Jason
A masterpiece.
Joe Utichi in FilmFocus
Optimistic viewers may debate how much of a handle he has on human nature. But he's clearly got a handle on his own views, and presents them in a way that is impossible to ignore or discount completely. You can loathe Dogville because it represents a concession to the basest ideas of human greed and cruelty, but you can't deny that it makes those ideas feel frighteningly real.
Josh Bell in Las Vegas Weekly