Von Trier likens making a Dogma movie to visiting a spa -- it's meant to be a tonic rather than a way of life.
Both follow, without making a big deal of it, some of the tenets of cinema verite and Dogma 95.
In India Jawaharlal Nehru wished to make "a clean sweep" of organised religion: "almost always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition and exploitation and the preservation of vested interests".
In this scenario, the "believers" have made religious dogma of their views, transformed them, in their own minds, into the one and true interpretation of the "American faith" and they are ready to denounce those who disagree as enemies of the Republic.
"Madvillainy" makes a convincing case that, however you choose to pray, two of hip-hop's many dogmas still obtain: Every sound can make a song.
Much of Dragon's Dogma's strangeness comes from what it fundamentally is a Japanese design team trying to make a Western-style RPG.
Now, the purpose of this post is not to make an argument for outdated religious dogmas and practices that breed ignorance and hatred.
"Breaking the Waves" isn't a Dogma film, but it made von Trier a cultural figure to be reckoned with.
Democracy is not a dogma; it is an experiment.
She's made environmental issues a dogma, a religion," wrote Kátia Abreu, the acerbic head of the ruralisa lobby in Congress.
