Hospital of ghosts or spirits

DVD recommendation: Lars von Trier - Hospital of Ghosts or Ghosts (Arte Edition)

at „Hospital of the spirits“ It is a mini-series by the Danish director Lars von Trier. The German first broadcast took place in 1995.

The series takes place at a hospital in Copenhagen. The hospital was built on the floor of the former dyer. In the course of the series, it becomes more and more apparent how the facade of strictly rational scientific medicine becomes more and more holey through inexplicably completely irrational events.

Even the most unscientific explanations of the most disreputable physicians resort to voodoo and other methods that are considered purely energetically effective in emergencies.

In his series with very dark humor, absurd dialogues and bizarre scenes and characters, Lars von Trier reveals the contradictions that are today in our purely logical and rational medicine. But he also does not shy away from portraying on the train of spirituality or energetics rising inauthentic characters whose purely selfish egoistic fantasy world goes through with them.

Trier also shows relentlessly the rigorous handling of patients, who become mere names of illnesses and victims of apparatus technology, as well as power games of the physicians among themselves. The series is therefore a pleasure due to this substantive debate and the very entertaining realization of this actual tragic theme, which is fraught with dogmas.

Lars von Trier is a pioneer in the field of hand-held camera work. His propagated by him and implemented in the movies „Dogma style“ However, for ordinary viewers, who are used to the Hollywood Cinema, first unusual. If you get used to the view and look at the undertones, you appreciate this grandiose series and will not give it away anymore. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 01.02.2010)