Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2014)

As I said in my review of Nymphomaniac Vol. 1, I really don't know. In this volume some new sexual aspects add up to the woman's life, like sadomasochism and therapy (followed by setting someone's car on fire). I really do want to believe that Lars does not just use these techniques to capture every horny viewer's attention and keep them hooked to the TV.The good parts for me were the dialogues between the nymphomaniac girl and the asexual man. His comparisons are sometimes quite interesting and give a bit more depth to the film (although artificially in some parts, especially at the end) to the film. What I liked is that through the asexual character, Lars is helping the audience understand the nymphomaniac (as compared to her probably most of us would be asexual). As if he is saying that you don't even have to have sex to be able to understand her, just think of parallels with stains on your walls or your fishing hook with her story of uncontrollable sex. He's basically saying that everyone can understand everyone if they really wish to.Okay, now I'll put this without spoilers, the end shook me in a way I didn't expect. I mean, I did realize that the characters would change somehow by the end 6 hours of the film, but could not foresee what happened. It was quite gross honestly. At first I hated the ending, however gradually I realized that the fear of me thinking "oh the movie should end soon~", but the scene of the door remaining on my screen was quite powerful. And this crippling spiders went into my body saying "whoops, something's not quite as I expected...". So I have to say, that was powerful, at least some time after digesting this film.Thanks Trier, I gave this 5 stars because that was my gut reaction, but I don't think you'd care, so I won't change it.

Nymph()maniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) continues to tell her soporific tale of sex addiction and S&M to asexual stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård).I surely deserve some kind of medal for watching Nymph()maniac Volumes 1 and 2 back-to-back; either that or I need my head examining. Like the first film, this second volume is wall-to-wall pseudo-intellectual tripe with a little hardcore sex and some S&M to spice things up. Actually, scrap that… it's more like a hardcore sex and S&M movie with some pseudo-intellectual claptrap in an effort to validate it as a work of art and not just extremely bad porn.It's hard to say who or what I hated most about this film, since virtually every frame irked me, but if I had to choose it would be both Skarsgård and Gainsbourg, whose lifeless performances threaten to put the viewer into a coma, Jamie Bell's irritating turn as professional masochist K (I have hated almost everything I have seen him in) and Shia La Beouf as Jerome (I've hated almost everything I have seen him in too).Having now sat through three Lars Von Trier movies, the other being the barely watchable Antichrist, I can now say that I am officially done with this director.

I saw many bad reviews for this movie and it's other Part. I loved it. If you're looking for porn, this isn't for you. While there are very explicit sex scenes, the movie is not really about the sex itself but about Joe, the nymphomaniac. It (Parts I and II) follows her from her first realization of her sexuality as a girl to the opening scene as she recounts her life as a sex addict. If you find very slow-paced, story-telling movies boring - you will not like this movie. If you like artsy, a bit weird, perhaps slow type indy films and you are okay with a lot of scenes of sex and genitalia AND some odd-fall references to Bach and fly-fishing, grab some wine and relax (probably not total relaxation. The movie is not the usual.) If you liked "Melancholia" - this has the same feel. This movie requires an open, enlightened mind. It's not for simple people.

I found it more authentic then all the BS dramas the big H serves. For all the critics saying this is just porn, you clearly didn't understand the message, maybe you're not familiar with the struggle or plain ignorance. !Spoiler alert! It talks about the people who are daily rejected by society, the ones that do not fit in the narrow box of normality that we are given. It's not Hollywood drama, it's real life drama, but you are so brain washed you don't get the difference. Maybe watch it again, this time without checking your iPhone every other minute. Watch it everyday, until you realize why it's not a porn, and then write hateful reviews if you still think it's bad.