Lars Von Trier Completes 'The Kingdom' Trilogy: 'The Kingdom Exodus'

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It's not hard to imagine back in the early '90s, with the excitement and fever of

' still in the air, a still young

in the producer's office on duty with a revolutionary idea for a television series .

Namely:

no one gets involved with anyone, no one ever talks about medicine and where the health personnel seem much sicker than any of their patients.

What could go wrong?

It would be for whatever reason, the fact is that the director already of jewels like

or '

' (and even of '

', why not?) got away with it, convinced whoever had to convince and everything, absolutely everything, went wrong.

Which is what it was about.

Between the irreverence, the supernatural drama, the gross comedy and the simplest delirium, what emerged on the screen is already an obligatory appointment determined

Then the golden age of the series would arrive with its dragons and its handsome doctors and everything would be infinitely more boring.

In other words, Lars Von Trier's invention was simply a genius that was as self-aware as it was inalienable, as well as a bad dream.

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Well, Lars Von Trier reappeared on Tuesday at the Mostra (not him, but his work through him -or vice versa-) with the third season of the series, the one that changed its name from

to

to end up being

as it got closer to us and our sore retinas.

The Kingdom Exodus

(as it is called now) is the closing and it is more sarcastic, corrosive and unprejudiced than ever.

We return to the most unlikely hospital in Denmark and the universe to attend the last battle between good, evil and just regular.

It is tele, but, in reality, shoot at it.

point blank

The first scene gives a clue.

Karen, the sleepwalking character played by actress

sees the end of the last season of, precisely,

on TV .

And there appears a young Lars Von Trier recovered from the past and saying goodbye to himself.

Can this end like this? she wonders incredulously with the old DVD in her hand.

What follows is the always negative answer to the question he just asked.

Back to the building in which a huge organism of bone, blood, stupidity and pain, a lot of pain, has materialized in its corridors.

Leaving nothing standing.

The Ikea jokes are mixed with an Olympic cataract of nonsense, all bordering on good taste, not forgetting a few

very stale and very Danish

The series comes, remember, after the director's announcement that he has

.

An issue that, unwittingly (as Chavo del Ocho would say) ends up being relevant.

It is not unreasonable to read

as a kind of outrageous testament, a great cosmic laugh against disease and fear, a reinvention of oneself against oneself.

Says the director from a distance that

.

And he adds that the word simply describes "a large number of people crossing a line drawn in pencil together."

And he concludes by wondering: "Why? ... Because there is an imbalance between good and evil! The limit has been reached, at least in the Kingdom ...".

Of course it doesn't, but what continues and closes his statement doesn't help at all either: "I can't swear that it will be easy and bloodless to open the seven astral locks of the world with the blood of a doctor."

Incomprehensible?

Do not hesitate.

Welcome to Lars Von Trier.

What will become of the executive who bought the series?

A monument, he deserves a monument.

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