Breaking The Waves. 1996.
Bess from a small community in Northern Scotland marries Danish oil rig worker Jan, both are happily in love til Jan is paralyzed in a freak accident and encourages his wife to find men to have sex with which she slowly becomes despised by the community.
A strange tale of happiness, joy, heartbreak, deceit and loyalty, Emily Blunt and Stellan Skarsgard play the happy couple who hard hit with tragedy and to keep his wife from being celibate encourages her to find pleasure with other men which goes against her religious beliefs. Bess who believes when she is praying and thinks god is answering her back plays on the mind that she is borderline Schizophrenic.
Lars Von Trier manages to capture some interesting cinematography and can seem amateurish at times with the back ground of Northern Scotland and does his masterful film making by making the film into chapters even with the journey from start to finish making the audience feel the emotions for the characters portrayed in the film.
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