Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2014)

Memorable, crazy movie

Good concept, poorly executed.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This was incredibly worth watching film. Maybe all the people who gives the rate one star think that i am pervert person, but... maybe they just don't get the meaning of the movie.This movie really brilliant and tell us a lot. Yea the duration is so long but really worth to watch. Maybe the people who like a happy ending movie and the light movie or inspirational movie will think this is only a trash, but there's so many other people who hate happy endings, or mainstream plot, and not just demanding about good and modern graphic, yes me here with you, I hope all the open mind people have watch this, and spread the open mind thoughts. Stop telling lies about your self. Stop the hypocrisy of your self, we should admit it, we are human with full of lust and desire.This movie just tear my thoughts apart, and sometimes make me afraid

Part 2 of nymphomaniac loses its genius, but not its quality, we have a script that surrenders to more utopian plots and loses its criticism, but, it remains a movie well above the average, we have a whole discourse around fetishes, of Abortion and gives odious social nature. We continue to follow the story of Joe's life, this time his story brings more social critiques than the philosophical discourse of the first, technically the film is perfect, photography, editing, soundtrack, sound mixing, etc. Great acting and the good old tripodless camera from Lars. If you followed the full version of the movie (which has three hours), you will see many scenes that in most parts of the movies are unnecessary, but here it is very, very necessary, worth a highlight to the abortion scene, explicitly, it shocks, leaves The agonized viewer, makes you squeeze the couch and look down, Lars Von Trier is a genius in building this kind of scene, after the abortion itself we have another 7 minutes of speech about the event, that discourse is not taken , All kinds of arguments are presented and the conclusion is for the viewer, who is always remembered in the plot, Lars Von Trier makes us remember that we are watching a movie about sex, and from there we extract the philosophy, the whole Lars does not develop it, it disturbs him, he does not like it, he does not like it, he does not like it, When you think that this story will be developed, Lars puts another story for us, but towards the end of the film we have banal motivations, even so, its ending is great.  SPOILER :::: Lars could end the movie with Joe sleeping and ended, but he makes his (asexual) listener want to have sex with Joe, and instead of just accepting, Joe kills her. Joe passes the whole movie thinking that she is a bad person, at a certain moment she blames the elite on her not framing, even so, for Joe, all that bad happens to the people around her is his fault, but in that last one Moment she realizes that society is bad and corrupt, and can be expressed in just one word, as Joe himself says, "Hypocrite." Joe and may even surface the worst in people, but she's not bad on her own. The first film begins with a few minutes of black screen and the last one ends with a few minutes of black screen, a symbol to the mourning, not only the death of its sexuality or the death of its hearing, but the death of the society as a whole.

I have given a 4 but only for the sake of some acting that I could stumble upon in the movie. Apart from me being very nice and generous it was a terrible movie, in fact. 1. Not only does he try to inject some "intellectual" lines within the script but he also mentions a few problems of philosophy of mathematics which are not taken seriously any more (e.g. Zeno's Paradox)2. Philosophical references are pretty naive and fail to draw attention from those who at least have read one or two pages from philosophy, logic or mathematics.3. Although its cinematography is very weak and restricted Lars von Trier did not hesitate to make such a long movie, apparently. 4. Relatively weak script and absolutely weak cinematography, obviously, is not the best combination to make a long movie; it is just making it dull, boring and almost pointless. 5. What is the premise anyway? ---spoiler--- Why did she kill him though he was merely jerking off and why on earth would a man say something like "oh you f*cked thousands of men, so what?" when a gun is pointed towards his freaking face? ---spoiler---6. Frankly, I would like to see more butts, tits and pussies in a movie named "Nymphomaniac". But no. All we see are damn ugly cocks.

First off I have given a high score as I don't think you can really rate a film like this; and many have given this a low score as they don't like the subject matter. This is not a film you can watch without having seen Volume one.It's a film about the extremes of sex, if you haven't an open mind on this subject then don't watch this film. There is a lot of graphic sex in this film, presumably to capture the authenticity of the material. Compared to volume one, the sex is much darker and delves into extreme BDSM. There are some very violent sex scenes, which nearly everyone would find deeply disturbing. However, more disturbing is the subject matter, much of which is not really explained, and pushes the story into strange unlit depths.As a film it is slow, arty, and with considerable metaphors. Intellectual more than passionate. Nicely shot too it has to be said; along with considerable acting and direction. Personally, I find if you don't engage with the principal character, it is hard to really enjoy the film. Although it would be possible to claim that Siligman is the viewpoint character the viewer is meant to empathize with (which too a degree does work). Compared to Volume one, this is definitely the better film. More condensed pace and covers the material with less "pauses". Does the film challenge and make you think? Definitely, but it is not an easy experience, even more so than the first film. Plot wise the film does reach a rounded conclusion, but I am not sure the ending will be to everyone's taste either.I liked that the film did not pull any punches and explored adult themes deeply, if not shockingly at times. However I would only recommend this for individuals that have a broad understanding of sexuality, prepared to be subjected to some pretty violent X rated scenes, and are fans of very arty, intellectual theater. As I said at the beginning, his is not the sort of film you can judge, you have to see it and make up your own mind.