  I noticed that too. I'm moving it here for now. Maybe someone can go through it and salvage the useful parts.    :Any film by a proven director deserves to be seen and commented on in its own terms. this is not what has happened to 'Dear Wendy'. The film was written by Lars von Trier and exhibits many of his tics and obsessions - notably a tendency to be didactic and rather melodramatic, yet also with a strong structure. Vinterberg works against most of the negative traits here, favouring a loose naturalism within the highly stylised story and setting. :The acting is uniformly excellent, but the debate and almost all 'criticism' for the film is centered on the supposed moral of the story - a group of misfit and rather anodyne teenagers form a pacifist gun club, develop close almost fetishistic attachments to their weapons, and run into the inevitable conflict with reality. :NO SPOILERS. Reading reviews and press reports, almost all discussion (and dislike) surrounding the film has been of two types: a) a non-cinematic debate about gun control in the USA; and b) criticism of the film's artificial and  'inauthentic' setting. Both of these trains of thought are held in common with Lars von Trier's recent 'Dogville'. :The film is however, very thoughtfully made, with beauitiful imagery and a distinct awareness of its own artificial nature. There are unusual moments of beauty and life within the film, and if at times the temptation to view it as a somewhat 'failed' Hollywood drama intrude, nevertheless, as a film, it does not fall into many of the dull traps of those 'typical' genre films. :Much closer to van Sant's 'Elephant' than to (say) 'Bonnie and Clyde', and very much worth the time.