I will abashedly admit that I've been interested in Yi Yi for a long time, but the runtime always puts me off. 3 hours isn't even that long. I'll get to it this year I think.
I have an appreciation for Dancer in the Dark (which I just watched for a HoF) and I LOVE Bjork. I struggled a bit with the sense that Von Trier was trying to achieve a dizzying amount of bleakness and tragedy---as a stark contrast to Bjork's character's unfailingly chipper outlook---but the layering at times just comes off as a bit too mean-spirited. I do think that it really captures how some people who are different (I don't want to say "mental illness" per se, but definitely atypical) have these fixed internal rules that they will not bend from, no matter the consequences. It was nowhere near my top 25, yet I'm kind of pleased to see it on this list.
I have an appreciation for Dancer in the Dark (which I just watched for a HoF) and I LOVE Bjork. I struggled a bit with the sense that Von Trier was trying to achieve a dizzying amount of bleakness and tragedy---as a stark contrast to Bjork's character's unfailingly chipper outlook---but the layering at times just comes off as a bit too mean-spirited. I do think that it really captures how some people who are different (I don't want to say "mental illness" per se, but definitely atypical) have these fixed internal rules that they will not bend from, no matter the consequences. It was nowhere near my top 25, yet I'm kind of pleased to see it on this list.