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0 pointsbiztos8y ago0 comments

> Both are geniuses and both hated their childhood.

I don't know anything about their respective childhoods, and I have greatly enjoyed some of Mr Trier's films, but I fear this is a dangerously egalitarian notion of "genius."

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theparanoid8y ago

We can't all be Beethovens.

mmmpop8y ago

And that is okay. Labels like "genius" and "hero" get watered down in our participation trophy culture.

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