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Cork - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 film screening: the idiots![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() at 8pm in solidarity books, douglas street The Idiots (Danish: Idioterne) is a 1998 Danish film directed by Lars von Trier. It is his first film made in compliance with the Dogme ’95 Manifesto, and is also known as Dogme #2. It is the second film in von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy, which includes Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancer in the Dark (2000). The film is about a seemingly “anti-bourgeois” group of adults who spend their time seeking their “inner idiot” to release their inhibitions. They do so by behaving in public as if they were developmentally disabled. The members of the group refer to this behaviour as “spassing”, a neologism derived from “spasser”, the Danish equivalent of “spaz”, which has the same connotations in Denmark as in the United Kingdom. (The Idiots is not concerned with actual disability, or with distinguishing between mental retardation and physical impairment.) |