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Which town? Our Town. Von Trier asserts his intention to rethink the classic Thornton Wilder play with his film's magnificent first shot: an overhead view of a nearly bare stage set, with Dogville's properties and props designated by painted lines. The old mine down the road is identified by a sign reading OLD MINE. A townsman closes an invisible door and we hear a slamming noise. Von Trier presumably wants us to attend to his characters' yearnings and prejudices without the distractions of period furnishings...
...streambed to just the right grade for optimum flow velocity, and lined it with clean gravel quarried from the property. He transplanted thousands of willow saplings to the area, reversing decades of brush-clearing efforts. The once steep banks are now grassy and gently sloping, almost parklike. Eagles soar overhead, scouting the rich fishery below...
...travel to anywhere in upstate New York. Especially on the way home, when you have been on the bus long enough that it seems okay to lock your coach in the bathroom, build a fort out of blankets, or my personal favorite thing to do is crawl into the overhead compartments and hit Nicole Corriero on the head from above her. Usually it takes her about an hour before she realizes where the hits are coming from, much to the enjoyment of everybody else...
...being as skinny as I am, I’m able to climb into the [overhead] compartments and crawl the length of the bus. So Nicole [Corriero] is sitting up front and someone opened [the compartment] up because we were all in on it and I just put my arm over and whacked her head and then get back up there...
With these thoughts looming overhead, the Crimson will look to continue the dominating play it showed in its 6-0 victory over Vermont—in which it outshot the Catamounts 72-2—and not the slow start it put forth in the 3-2 loss to the Big Green...