Interpretations
Ebert and Roeper criticized Dogville as having a strongly anti-American message, citing, for example, the closing credits sequence with images of poverty-stricken Americans (taken from Jacob Holdt's documentary book American Pictures, 1984) accompanied by David Bowie's song Young Americans. In 2009, American director Quentin Tarantino named the film as one of his top 20 films that have been made since he has been directing. He also said to believe that, had the movie been written for the stage, von Trier would have won a Pulitzer prize.
According to von Trier, the point of the film is that "evil can arise anywhere, as long as the situation is right."
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