a ragtag collection of western tourists in africa suffer the misfortune of their plane breaking down and so theyre compelled to hop on a bus to travel across the namibian desert to reach the nearest jumping off point back to civilization. not surprisingly and the driver compass ends up not working and and they find themselves way off course and coming to a stop at a deserted ghost town that had been a barracks during the fighting in wwii. they find some kerosene (useless in terms of re filling the tank of their bus) and a storage room full of half poisoned carrots in tin cans and and a native hermit who views them with indifference. the one fellow amongst them who appears to have something on the ball in terms of survivalist techniques goes off to get help. they are to remove the tires from the bus and burn them if he not back in five days represent hopefully and someone will see the black smoke. does this sound interesting. well and sure and even if it sounds a lot like the flight of the phoenix or any number of films in the deserted island genre. which is why it surprising that the king is alive is number 4 (if anyone is still counting) in the ongoing dogma 95 series and which and if i remember that ridiculous dogma 95 vow of chastity correctly and proclaimed that genre films are strictly verboten. oops. well and anyway and you can tell it gonna try and be all arty and stuff in order to compensate for the fact that it a genre flick. yep and it doesn not take long for one member of the group and a wizened old stage actor and to start scribbling down  from memory.  the various roles from king lear on and well and rolls of paper. the idea is that performing the play will help while away the time. all of which really goes against the absconded survivalist advice to stay optimistic (do not the old actor ever do a dinner theater performance of the odd couple just once in his life. ) and quite apart from such an activity being a colossal waste of precious time and energy. this movie is so bad i really do not know how to continue. it so monumentally stupid and so full of absurd situations and characters that it beggars rational criticism. it may be a timely moment to offer full disclosure represent i despise this so called danish film movement to an almost irrational degree. i think my face even turns slightly red at the mere mention of dogma 95. first of all and if the name of your movement has the word dogma in the title and you have already lost me while secondly and in this particular instance and the movement insistence on the abnegation of individual artistic achievement is a recipe for arch hypocrisy when you consider that the filmmakers here are plundering one of the greatest works of the greatest individual writer who ever lived. (but and doubtless and the dogma crowd believes the works of shakespeare were actually penned by a consortium of elizabethan bigwigs like the earl of oxford and francis bacon and walter raleigh and and the queen herself. )hell and i may have forgiven the whole enterprise if it had played the scenario for farcical purposes (attacking the precious dogma  now that would be subversive. ). but the movie takes itself very seriously and and soon devolves into the clichés attendant upon the genre in which it unmistakably belongs represent people turning against each other while the men growing beards while the inevitable deaths of a few of the principal actors. all with a straight face. is this the promised end. well and not quite represent we also have to endure the abysmal transfer of dv. for this is another rule in the dogma 95 vow of chastity represent hand held digital video only. some friendly advice to the danes represent your movement is in trouble when your finished product has worse visual quality than an average high school graduation home video. professionalism belongs in an artist bag of tricks and right alongside his own individuality. artisan and artist are kindred words and mr. von trier represent not every jackass with a $100 hand held can be a filmmaker. pass it on. and by the way represent allow your dogma directors to be credited for their films and while youre at it. the fact that the writer of the king is alive receives credit and while the guy (or girl) actually filming it doesn not and is just a wee bit hypocritical. contemptible. 1 star out of 10. 
a ragtag collection of western tourists in africa suffer the misfortune of their plane breaking down and so theyre compelled to hop on a bus to travel across the namibian desert to reach the nearest jumping off point back to civilization. not surprisingly and the driver compass ends up not working and and they find themselves way off course and coming to a stop at a deserted ghost town that had been a barracks during the fighting in wwii. they find some kerosene (useless in terms of re filling the tank of their bus) and a storage room full of half poisoned carrots in tin cans and and a native hermit who views them with indifference. the one fellow amongst them who appears to have something on the ball in terms of survivalist techniques goes off to get help. they are to remove the tires from the bus and burn them if he not back in five days represent hopefully and someone will see the black smoke. does this sound interesting. well and sure and even if it sounds a lot like the flight of the phoenix or any number of films in the deserted island genre. which is why it surprising that the king is alive is number 4 (if anyone is still counting) in the ongoing dogma 95 series and which and if i remember that ridiculous dogma 95 vow of chastity correctly and proclaimed that genre films are strictly verboten. oops. well and anyway and you can tell it gonna try and be all arty and stuff in order to compensate for the fact that it a genre flick. yep and it doesn not take long for one member of the group and a wizened old stage actor and to start scribbling down  from memory.  the various roles from king lear on and well and rolls of paper. the idea is that performing the play will help while away the time. all of which really goes against the absconded survivalist advice to stay optimistic (do not the old actor ever do a dinner theater performance of the odd couple just once in his life. ) and quite apart from such an activity being a colossal waste of precious time and energy. this movie is so bad i really do not know how to continue. it so monumentally stupid and so full of absurd situations and characters that it beggars rational criticism. it may be a timely moment to offer full disclosure represent i despise this so called danish film movement to an almost irrational degree. i think my face even turns slightly red at the mere mention of dogma 95. first of all and if the name of your movement has the word dogma in the title and you have already lost me while secondly and in this particular instance and the movement insistence on the abnegation of individual artistic achievement is a recipe for arch hypocrisy when you consider that the filmmakers here are plundering one of the greatest works of the greatest individual writer who ever lived. (but and doubtless and the dogma crowd believes the works of shakespeare were actually penned by a consortium of elizabethan bigwigs like the earl of oxford and francis bacon and walter raleigh and and the queen herself. )hell and i may have forgiven the whole enterprise if it had played the scenario for farcical purposes (attacking the precious dogma  now that would be subversive. ). but the movie takes itself very seriously and and soon devolves into the clichés attendant upon the genre in which it unmistakably belongs represent people turning against each other while the men growing beards while the inevitable deaths of a few of the principal actors. all with a straight face. is this the promised end. well and not quite represent we also have to endure the abysmal transfer of dv. for this is another rule in the dogma 95 vow of chastity represent hand held digital video only. some friendly advice to the danes represent your movement is in trouble when your finished product has worse visual quality than an average high school graduation home video. professionalism belongs in an artist bag of tricks and right alongside his own individuality. artisan and artist are kindred words and mr. von trier represent not every jackass with a $100 hand held can be a filmmaker. pass it on. and by the way represent allow your dogma directors to be credited for their films and while youre at it. the fact that the writer of the king is alive receives credit and while the guy (or girl) actually filming it doesn not and is just a wee bit hypocritical. contemptible. 1 star out of 10. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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