I loved both. Both removed surface details of the scenery. As a result, the films were reduced and refined to just the underlying fine substrates; the characters and their interactions moving the plot forward. Really genius and novel technique that I've never seen before in the film medium.

When I first saw this film a long time ago, a part of me was hoping that Lars was going to be a pioneer in a new genre of abstract filmmaking, but it never caught on. He himself abandoned this method of filmmaking after Manderlay. This makes me sad.