To me, this movie is perfection.

Admirable film.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I am writing this review only for one reason: to explain the dumb people who view this film as racist, that it is nothing they think.I will make it short- this is what the movie was trying to say (and it is not the directors fault you did not get it): White people caused slavery. After a while (a long, long while) it started to be perceived as something bad and was abolished. Of course people who were living in slavery (meaning- outside the society) didn't know how to find their way and survive outside the concept of slavery, of course they couldn't be as successful as a white person- they didn't have the same chances. So, the white people try to "help" for a short while, and of course the problems which took generations to build up cant be solved in a short time. Then the whites get angry, they are sick of helping, they feel burdened by the blacks and their inability to make it in the society. And they punish the blacks because the blacks couldn't make it, but they are forgetting: the blacks didn't cause the problem, the whites did.Its not only about black and white, it is about human nature and racism is just one example.So, please, this movie is no way racist, it is the complete opposite.

OK KGF Vissers should not be allowed to write any more plot summaries until he/she takes a remedial English composition course at the nearest GED program and/or night school ... good lord can you actually create more convoluted sentences than the opening one? i mean if you really sat down and gave it 100 percent effort, could you create a sentence that make less sense? or is it more of a zen-like effort where effort is counterproductive to the end result? I'm guessing it's more akin to an idiot-savant method ... and i suspect I'm only half right in that assessment ...and please, IMDb, hire a few people to take a gander at these plot summaries ... hire me, i'd be happy to lend a hired hand around here for you ... it really makes the website look shoddy and this is absolutely one of the best websites ever pulled together ... amazing content and insanely handy ... please don't let slip-shod contributions make it less ...

The way that director Lars Von Trier can point his finger so solemnly and self-importantly at a country he's never lived in is insufferable. The look of the film is tough on the eyes to watch. Can't a serious film be at least mildly pleasing aesthetically? I'd hope so. Cinema is a visual art form after all. And Von Trier's message? Moronic obvious nonsense about slavery still existing 70 years later, the fact that capitalism itself becomes slavery, and comparing Grace's (Bryce Dallas Howard) fight to end the slavery at Manderlay with the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As in "Dogville", Von Trier has no concept of what he speaks. Thankfully I didn't pay to see the movie so I'm glad he didn't reap any rewards from me or my crew.

it basically follows what happens in dogville but different actors playing grace and her gangster father, the gangster father played by Willem dafoe has only a small part to play but is very effective. originally played by James caan. i really do think grace should have been played by Nicole kidman like in dogville, but grace is acted out by Bryce Dallas Howard who i don't like all that much because of lady in the water, terrible film. Bryce is OK in this film, wouldn't say amazing though. i think the best performance in this is played by Danny glover but the best thing about this film that kept me glued was the narration by john hurt, the guy is a legend. he isn't the greatest in front of the camera but I'm so hoping he narrates more titles. now i wouldn't advise everyone to watch this film as it is filmed on a stage (just like dogville) and there's very little props around. you have to basically imagine that there in a house and not on a stage which i think is very original and brilliant and it works. good job to Lars Von trier for making another brilliant, dogville is the better on of the two though. looking forward to the third in the series "wasington"........... 8/10....... j.d seaton