Theory: Nymphomaniac Is Actually a Comedy
LatestHave you seen all of the trailers for Lars Von Trier’s seXXXy new movie Nymphomaniac? If you have, you’d definitely remember them because they’re SO racy and SO edgy that they’re literally IMPOSSIBLE to forget. Like, one red band trailer shows Shia LaBeouf’s naked butt as he’s doing it with a lady and another one shows that same lady spitting out semen after giving some dude a hardcore BJ in a train car. And all the while there’s some pretty cool death metal song playing with a singer who goes, “OOOGGGGHHHH, NYMPHOMANIAC.”
It’s angry. It’s raw. It’s REAL. But at the same time, it’s also so silly that it has to secretly be a comedy?
Since going into production, the intention of Nymphomaniac has clearly been to shock its audience. At first, it was implied that the film’s actors (who include LaBeouf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Uma Thurman and Willem Dafoe among others) would be having real sex on screen. In an interview with MTV News, LaBeouf pretty much confirmed this, saying, “[The movie] is what you think it is. It is Lars von Trier, making a movie about what he’s making. For instance, there’s a disclaimer at the top of the script that basically says we’re doing it for real. Everything that is illegal, we’ll shoot in blurred images. Other than that, everything is happening.”