The ultra-radical world on the other side drawn by genius Lars von Trier's ``The House That Jack Built'' *Note! Contains spoilers.

Jack and Dante share the color “red”

Now that we have clarified the Verge, let's return to that pictorial moment. Here, the main character, Jack, wears a bright red robe. Coincidentally, Dante also wears a bright red costume on his head in Delacroix's painting.

Throughout the ages, even in historical paintings by artists other than Doacroix (such as Botticelli), there is a common understanding that ``when Dante is mentioned, red is associated with red.'' This color is noble and full of faith and love for God, so to speak. It can be said to be the trademark of a great man.

On the other hand, ``The House That Jack Built'' also has an impressive sprinkling of red. From the beginning, the color of the cars running on the mountain road continues, and the vivid red is carried over to the jack used to change tires, and the color of the blood splattered there. An eerie single line appears on the road, and then, like a sash connecting the final runners, the bright red continues. It becomes a uniform (that is, a robe), and at its feet, red-hot magma waits with its mouth open. A story that is so captivated by the color red. And life.

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The great Dante and the serial killer Jack. Trier seems to have painted these dissimilar figures, yet clad in the same colors, overlapping each other.

If you watch it that way, the scene where Jack meets Virge for the first time in the dark is also very vivid. In my eyes, this building constructed using the ultimate materials is more like Rodin's masterpiece ``The Gates of Inferno'' (also inspired by ``The Divine Comedy'') or William Blake's ``Inferno'' than a house. I couldn't help but think of it as a strange illustration of "Hen" (page 31 in Shueisha Bunko). By passing through this, they will enter the ultimate other world.

A film director who continues to walk to the ends of Inferno even after being exiled