Manderlay (Denmark, 2005)
The second movie in Director's Lars von Trier trilogy is a powerful story about slavery in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. We follow Grace, the daughter of a gangster boss, who discovers the cotton plantation called Manderlay. In this plantation, black people are still being treated as slaves. Grace decides to stay for a while and try to establish a normal "democracy", according to her. She discovers a book that categorizes each slave according to his or her personality, describing how they should behave or react to certain situations. Things become tense when one child dies of pneumonia, and the inhabitants of Manderlay decide to take revenge on one person who stole the food from the sick child. From this point on everyting goes downhill, and the shocking ending makes you reflect upon American history and its horrible past regarding slaves.
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Was the first one in the trilogy Dogville? Or am I imagining things? It's just that it sounds like this is a similar sort of topic.
This is supposed to be the second part of Dogville. Lars von Trier is doing a trilogy. So the third film should be in the making. But you are right, the topic, or subject, is very similar.
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