@rahve: unfortunately, he did. as much as i love his movies, he is actually proud that he conceived his american trilody without ever visiting America, and he says he is not going to set foot on American soil evah. that's one of the reasons why i prefer to interpret his films existentially rather than politically - he depicts archetypes that can be related with the idea of being human rather than the idea of being American, and he does no wrong with those. when he veers a bit more on the political side i find him slightly devoid of credentials, but that's not only out of the notion that he doesn't know bu about the US of A. i loved manderlay (and everyone knows that in my opinion dogville is one of the bestest things in the world), but the closing sequence - not the finale, the closing proper - struck me as odd, in the sense that a dane should not think he's spike lee.
