The Names of the heroes: the Name "Joe" (unisex, Joseph / Josephine "Yahweh will repay") / Name
"Jerome" (Jeremiah, "the Lord will glorify"). If we consider the history of the prophet Jeremiah (he
predicted the destruction and captivity of the Jewish people) and St. Joseph (the story of Jesus), it is so
clear why Trier chose these names for the movie. Indirectly or directly he killed "happy" anti-Zionist Jew
by the name of Seligman. What is it? Of course, it is the settling of accounts. The name "Seligman" initially
it's not 100% Jewish, though it sounds very authentic. This name is old high German / Norwegian and is
translated as "blessed"; this name was given to the priests! And Seligman takes confession. (Read more
about this in the final). In addition, it may be trolling for Martin Seligman - founder of positive psychology.
Running up the hill: When little Joe unwillingly received orgasm, two great nymphomaniacs looked at
her in reproach; this is not blessing or initiation, but rather a sign warning about inevitable fate, as well
as the birth of a son, family and finale.
The Jerome’s image: The casual meetings with Jerome were always slightly similar to the fantasy, pretty
mythical... for example: suddenly - her boss, meeting in the Park, returning and salvation of her son, the
client for collecting debts, meeting in the alley; only their first meeting was classic, though Jerome just
was near Joe's orbit, mutual friend, a sex-target. Finally Joe gave the relay baton to her inheritress
"reduced copy" and Jerome took her to the same mind trap, and possibly deprived her of her virginity.
The circle has closed. In the end, after such sudden scenes of the "appearance"... the remark of Seligman
was immediately recalled - "this can't be true". And then Jerome, the most ordinary man, turns to some
quasi-domination essence over Joe's soul, the distorting mirror; the same norm which was incompatible
with her, but dominated and served her as a kind of reference point for her personal domination and
manifestations of masculinity. Jerome is like the main code of our society.
The Final way of Joe: Having found her tree Joe had to get out of the vicious circle of Jerome’s norms; to
be allegorically watered (joke of Trier in the alley), find the sun (the light on the wall, sun spot like G-spot
and a thread to up) and to make sacrifice will killing of Seligman.
The Problem of Seligman and Chekhov's gun: Well, Seligman, the old bookworm of an Apple of
knowledge, had one mistake - he released his snake at a bad time. He gave to himself full moral /
immoral right to rape sleeping, exhausted Joe with naive hope that she won't awake and then she will
just continue her path to the new horizon. All of this is a circus with substitution of concepts! Now let's
examine why Seligman did it. He appears in Joe's life not as a "theorist" of being and sex who decided to
taste forbidden fruit after all these stories with a woman who wanted to be reborn and forget her lust...
Oh. no! But Seligman is not the "righteous" person who fell in sin at the close of his days with
Magdalene, earning the "burning in hell” figuratively, but in fact he earned death. Seligman is a man who
did not believe anything that Joe said. She, dirty and broken, stay at his house, talking dirty stories that is
one more illusory then another, but in fact she is just a typical slut who is greedy for sex. So he wanted to
try her. Everything is normal? No, no, no again! The murder of Seligman is a kind of blood oath for the
truth of all her stories and for the future - not-guilty verdict. Take a break, think about it...
...
Her first friend! In a dozen minutes! Ta-da and the first murder! She tried to fight inner Jerome in her
brains, heart and vulva by killing Seligman. Well done! She killed the person who, wriggling into favour,
desecrated not whore but an awakened soul, from the black buds of Yggdrasil (world tree, ash-tree). She
has becamed a big heart but not wild female. Joe was able to understand, accept and love herself and
through this love she 7F