the experience-less modern mankind

The poetic aspects really don't affect me, but Leths speak is just so funny, don't know if it's really intentional.

Poetic, genuinely artistic.

This is pretentious as hell, which is the exact right amount of pretension for me.

A very amusing dig at human conventions and rituals. The guy's dancing is absolutely hilarious. Also, hey a beautiful woman in a bra smoking a cigar.

Confrontational silliness. It always weirds me out to see stuff from this era with a "perfect man" - like Number 12 Looks Just Like You - because he's always such a dumpy looking dweeb paired with a gorgeous woman.

An almost zoological study of two "perfect humans", done with trademark Scandinavian dry wit. It raises a lot of intriguing questions (are these "perfect" humans, or "perfectly human"?) and has a lot of enigmatic flair for such a short piece. I was struck by the immediacy of it: the stark white background, the extreme close-ups, and the heavy emphasis on words like "here", "this" and "now". Cool stuff.

The Greatest Calvin Klein Commercial Ever Made! ;)

It's simple. The perfect man and woman are in a boundless white "room," which is really just a white screen. They are treated like they are in a zoo, with the narrating explaining what a human is. "This is an eye." What this movie does really well is make you question the entire idea of a perfect human and whether our whole model for it is downright ridiculous. Great film and I can see why Lars Von Trier loves it.

The nearly perfect short film.

Good stuff. It features a man and a woman trapped in a boundless white room, going through simple, even banal, actions in a state of complete innocence. Meanwhile the narration treats them like some sort of zoo animal as if this white room is a cage and they specimens to be observed. It's nothing outstanding, especially as it gets overly quirky at some points, but it is fascinating, elegant and amusing.

Charming and cool.

This is the short format mastered.