"Ordet" is a film about the Second Coming, in the tradition of Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" (its heirs include such recent films as "The Green Mile" and "K-Pax"). From the first scene, the tone is apocalyptic, otherworldly. We see a breezy field of dunes in rural Denmark. Sheep wander about, unwatched. Johannes, who seems to address the whole earth from his dune, speaks with the voice and authority of Revelation 2, in which Christ diagnoses the spiritual condition of his church. "Ordet" is Dreyer's diagnosis of modernity - what would the Second Coming look like if it occurred today? What business would Christ attend to if he visited the 20th (or 21st) century? You won't find the answer in "The Omega Code," but you just might find it in "Ordet."
(Thus says Seth Studer of The Vagrant Cafe http://www.vagrantcafe.com/christiancinema/2003_11_11_archive.htm)
(Thus says Seth Studer of The Vagrant Cafe http://www.vagrantcafe.com/christiancinema/2003_11_11_archive.htm)What sayest Thou?
Yes Thou. Thou!
What sayest Thou?
Thus asks the ImpossibleApe.
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