Treasure of the Sierra Madre

When Shakespeare decided to put a trio of witches into Macbeth he knew that their very presence would suggest to his audience something fearful beyond imagining. They were a kind of algebraic symbol for the unknown quantity of evil which the play, in more realistic fashion, attempted to solve for. Nowadays, the presence of witches…

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Yet another exercise in anti-Americanism from Lars von Trier, though the propaganda gets sidetracked for most of the film by radical political philosophy