One Paragraph Movie Review: Breaking The Waves
1 min readAug 24, 2019
Sixty-first film: Breaking The Waves, a deeply, deeply depressing film by Lars von Trier. With the long slow slide towards despair broken only by truly odd subtitles accompanied by 70s classic rock, the story is set in a dour and remote Catholic Scottish village and covers the following classic themes:
Religion is bad.
Men are bad.
Mental illness is hard.
Ending a movie is hard.
Great if you like incredible acting and feeling extremely terrible, not so good if you need a reason to get out of bed tomorrow.
Two and a half back-of-the-bus wristies out of five.