I'm going to be honest and say that I don't know exactly what writer Lars Von Trier and director Thomas Vinterberg were trying to say with this offbeat drama about a group of misfit pacifist youths who form a gun club—that a gun will inevitably be used to kill, perhaps?—but I still found it reasonably enjoyable, especially the final act, in which the gang sacrifice themselves to deliver a packet of coffee.
Everything leading up to that point has a certain quirky charm about it, as the small-town losers (played by Jamie Bell, Michael Angarano, Chris Owen, Alison Pill, Mark Webber and Danso Gordon) discover friendship and confidence, but what follows is so bonkers that I couldn't help be entertained. As the gang escort batty old lady Clarabelle (Novella Nelson) across the street to deliver the coffee to her niece, things go horribly awry, the barmy biddy pulling a shotgun from her bag and blasting a cop.
With each of the Dandies (as the gang is called) packing a weapon, they quickly do a runner (Clarabelle in tow), but their code of honour means that they must return to finish their job, and so the gang engage in a desperate shootout with a heavily armed police force, determined to complete the mission even after the coffee has been spilt. No doubt Von Trier and Vinterberg intended the OTT ending to symbolise something profound, but I just liked it for its craziness.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for the hilariously gratuitous moment where Pill flashes her tits at Bell.
Everything leading up to that point has a certain quirky charm about it, as the small-town losers (played by Jamie Bell, Michael Angarano, Chris Owen, Alison Pill, Mark Webber and Danso Gordon) discover friendship and confidence, but what follows is so bonkers that I couldn't help be entertained. As the gang escort batty old lady Clarabelle (Novella Nelson) across the street to deliver the coffee to her niece, things go horribly awry, the barmy biddy pulling a shotgun from her bag and blasting a cop.
With each of the Dandies (as the gang is called) packing a weapon, they quickly do a runner (Clarabelle in tow), but their code of honour means that they must return to finish their job, and so the gang engage in a desperate shootout with a heavily armed police force, determined to complete the mission even after the coffee has been spilt. No doubt Von Trier and Vinterberg intended the OTT ending to symbolise something profound, but I just liked it for its craziness.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for the hilariously gratuitous moment where Pill flashes her tits at Bell.