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Exactly, it's extraordinarily witty, but for audiences accustomed to

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In Reply to: Ditto posted by 4season on September 8, 2005 at 20:48:40:

humor founded on extreme vulgarity, feces-slinging (pies aren't enough anymore), and sophomoric insults, this film will mystify them.
The fact that the humor is shown actually to mask a very serious underlying story (the post-WWII emotional landscape with its attendant guilt) only adds to the brilliance.

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I didn't pick up on so much guilt - 4season 19:29:40 09/09/05 (1)
...but then again, there could have been some war-related remarks which simply eluded me. If there was more meaning to the "Don't tell about the Finns" remark, or the roomful of pepper, or Grant's rather cryptic remark as he walks out of the haircut scene, I didn't really catch it.
- Some Scandinavian countries were less resistive to the Nazis than - tinear 17:53:08 09/12/05 (0)
  others, much to their lasting guilt. That's the underlying "frisson" between the two main characters.

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