Dogville

Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal set to tell the story of Grace (Kidman), a fugitive from mobsters, who arrives in the small town of Dogville and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.

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Dogville was in the Rocky Mountains
in the US of A.

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Up here where the road came to its
definiteve end near the entrance to the old,
abandoned silver mine.

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The residents of Dogville were good,
honest folks and they liked their township.

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And while a sentimental soul from the East Coast
had once dubbed their main street ELM STREET,

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though no elm tree had ever
cast its shadow in Dogville,

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they saw no reason to change anything.

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Most of the buildings were pretty wretched;
more like shacks; frankly.

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The house in which Tome lived
was the best, though,

:00:59

and in good times might almost
have passed for presentable.

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That afternoon the radio was playing softly,

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for in his dotage Thomas Edison Senior
had developed a weakness for music of the lighter kind.

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[Radio Presenter] Ladies and Gentlemen...
the President of the United States...

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Tom, do me a favor, will you?
The radio!?

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Just because the music's over and
you might risk hearing something useful?

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I thought that's why we have the radio...

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Well, I need a rest, as you know.

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Mock me if you like.

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[Narrator] Tom's father had been a doctor
and now received a modest pension,

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so it was no great disaster for Tom
to drift about not doing anything in particular.

:01:49

Tom was a writer.
...at any rate by his own lights.

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Oh, his output as committed to paper
was so far limited to the words "great" and "small",

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