7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Dogville (2003)
Dogville (2003)
Overview
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.2
Overview
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis is a scathing critique of systemic human depravity and exploitation within a community, culminating in a radical, violent, and revolutionary solution that dismantles the oppressive structure, aligning with explicit progressive ideology.
The movie features primarily traditional casting with a predominantly white ensemble, showing no intentional race or gender swaps of roles. Its narrative offers a broad critique of human nature and societal power dynamics, rather than explicitly focusing on or critiquing traditional identities in a DEI context.
Secondary
The film portrays a community whose moral framework, heavily influenced by a rigid and puritanical interpretation of Christian values, leads to extreme hypocrisy, cruelty, and exploitation. The narrative exposes how self-righteousness and a twisted sense of virtue are used to justify the systematic abuse of Grace, ultimately condemning this distorted moral system as oppressive and destructive.
Dogville does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on themes of human nature, exploitation, and morality within a small town, without incorporating any elements related to queer identity or experiences.
Dogville does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or explore themes related to transsexual identity. The narrative is entirely focused on the protagonist's experiences with exploitation and the moral decay of a community, rendering the framework for transsexual portrayal inapplicable.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Dogville is an original screenplay by Lars von Trier. Its characters were created specifically for this film and do not have prior canonical or historical gender baselines from which to be swapped.
Dogville is an original film with characters created specifically for this production. There is no prior source material, historical record, or previous installment from which characters' races were established. Therefore, no character could have been race-swapped.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.0
7.8
Critic Ratings
7.0
6.1
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