The Square 2017 - The Dinner Party Scene

[@obenrob]

this scene felt like an eternity in the cinema

[@rp2077]

What a powerful scene. So realistic. The moment everyone remains quiet in the hall , they knew exactly who was in control. This scene brings innumerable messages. By the way he played Rocket in The Planet Of The Apes trilogy.

[@thelastattempt666]

One of the best scenes of this decade, and one of the best performances, hands down

[@DL-hu9yw]

Agreed, it's simply one of the best scenes I've seen in any film, ever. Both shocking, and deeply (uncannily) familiar. I also agree about the acting .. I can't imagine how much training-and raw talent-went into this.

[@vicentegeonix]

Maybe a little exaggerated but really good scene.

[@Nick-cy2tn]

When your parents make you come downstairs at a family gathering

[@alexisezequielmontoya2477]

mejor comentario :v

Usually this guy is Hollywood’s top stuntman/performer for animal characters. He doesn’t normally show himself.

[@coolstoryneedsmoredragons4336]

so he is acting normally, makes sense

[@jimmym3352]

The wait staff are probably figuring this is what rich people do for fun.

[@colincolin5696]

I’ve never seen someone be so identical to an animal. This is actually crazy. It’s like watching an angry ape showing off. So cool for some reason 😂

[@corbinbrodie2636]

For the past 5 years I've worked at one of the UK's foremost independent cinemas in Scotland, until we financially collapsed back in October. While looking for a new job been revisiting on youtube film bits from my past 5 years of regularly seeing the best of world, independent, classic cinema. This scene...out of all of it...five years of watching the best of world and independent film...this was the scene I always remembered. This was the one scene I saw out of oodles of amazing film scenes that I never forgot. The one that made me go...that...that right there...that's why you make films, to create that kind of situation with so many layers you don't know where to start in talking about it. But the impact is visceral on all those levels.

[@fredspipa]

Thank you. I remember audibly gasping a few minutes into this scene, then after it was over this euphoria washed over me and I just had to stop the movie and step outside. And I had the exact same thought as you had: "moments like these is why you make films"

[@koller13]

Did you work at the GFT in Glasgow? Been there very often, great place!

[@malkavian6275]

Legit one of the most uncomfortable movie scenes I've seen

[@omg9261]

Such a great scene and the performance of the main actor is perfect.

[@wdyatdf]

On the small screen too.

[@blindsoul7915]

How do you deal with bad behavior? This scene exposes that modernity does not have an answer. It will take a catastrophe before people act.

[@tim2670]

Encephalych Dementium yes!

[@fede-cinamer144]

The thing is: should art have boundaries? For us art is something entertaining you. We approach it as something we can decide whether or not to put an end to. But is not true that art is all around us in every moment? This scene want to give us a perspective of what art can be if the boundary is broken. Should it be safe? I apologize for my English but I am from another country.

[@Diictator]

So true, it not only very powerfully shows that, but also notice how in the end it's really one grown old man that helps the lady, after like 30 s screaming, but at least he does, and THEN comes other men. So all it really takes is to have one good person, brave enough to act first and then we can maybe avoid the catastrophe.

[@Diictator]

@KeoneArt it's purpose isn't to prove anything, it's to show you the director's view or perspective on a situation that happens and how it does happen ,so that maybe it would change some of the viewer's perspective on the matter... all scenes are acted out, the best ones make no exception, but they don't feel "acted" because of the performances of the actors. And this is one of those IN MY OPINION :) ( To my knowledge all the people on the scene are either stuntsmen/women or extras, so they knew and agreed to all of this, but some of them were not really acting, which makes it even better )

[@martybm7617]

well it is because we rely on the assumption that everyone is aware of their "boundaries" and we drew those boundaries as we built the civilization, as we call it.

[@zaheersarang6466]

How have I not seen this before. Definitely going to give this a watch. This was incredible.

[@andersdondes4748]

It's called the Square and it won the golden Palm inn Cannes. You should check out Triangle of Sadness as well. ^^

[@Spacejuno]

It’s the best scene in the movie but the film it’s self is not as cohesive as I would like in my humble opinion.

[@williammelvin]

7:07 is when shit got real. Every head down.

[@siobhan28483]

I could just feel everyone’s uneasiness. I kept thinking how I would cope in a situation like that. I’d most probably make a quick exit!

[@sergiomoreno6861]

Now that's incredible, give the man an Oscar, he deserves it.

[@tausendwasser6701]

No he does not.

[@helix5779]

​@@tausendwasser6701 yes he does

[@tausendwasser6701]

@@helix5779 You don't know much about the Academy Awards, don't you? 😉

[@helix5779]

@@tausendwasser6701 the wink emoji hahaha. you have no idea how lame you're coming across

[@tausendwasser6701]

@@helix5779 I'm on the internet dude, I couldn't care less how I come across...

[@tannushka5992]

It reminds me the reactions of USA and EU in relation to the Russian Federation. But there is one difference: USA and EU still do not really try to stop the Russian Reich

[@secretrarecollctbles1892]

notice at the end they became like wild animals to defend that woman, theres a fine line between civilized society and our animal nature,we like to think we are much more because we eat with a fork and wear clothes but in reality when the chips are down, we will eat eachother

[@DL-hu9yw]

Agreed, too often we forget that humans are animals, too. There's peril in that forgetting.

[@kaelonroache8240]

Alright Joker hahaha

[@secretrarecollctbles1892]

Ah hah hah hah

[@jonathanwalther]

That's the comment, I was searching for. Thanks.

[@str.77]

Actually, in the end the people finally adopted the normal behaviour.

[@RoboJules]

This gives me the same feeling I get when I have to take the bus with a homeless person going through psychosis.

[@kalakritistudios]

I feel like this scene should be connected with the one with the Turret's syndrome one.

[@wareaglefishing3575]

This why I had to quit drinking ,because this was apparently how I behaved .

[@Nimue333]

Hahaha

[@jonathanwalther]

Thx, what an insight. Stay sober and seek help, if needed.

[@raqueldeshow9678]

hhahahhaahaa damn

[@joaquinorellana7987]

i saw the movie by THIS scene, thank you lord by give me eyes to see this incredible performance, so many subtext you can take of this pure, raw, powerful scene, just incredible

[@tmanning6198]

The truth is , EVERY THING is art. You can't manage the power or influence of an artists work just because you own an art gallery. If art imitates life and you personal life is out of control, how do you expect to manage an art performance which perfectly resembles the nature of that life itself. I always hear art enthusiasts demanding a display of 'Art without Boundaries', well here it is , a performance artist pretending to be a monkey is what they paid for Until they realized it was too much for them too handle.

[@Torresmo2]

If everything is art,nothing is art !

[@NastyNas695]

Well said, exactly the reason why this scene is so important and meaningful, thanks for commenting

[@vicentegeonix]

A chimp*

[@giannirodriguez33]

Looper Lol! took me an eternity to find this.

[@citizenoftrone6570]

Me at the class reunion

[@allykins1767]

It's all fun and games until someone's face gets ripped off.

[@minagola6950]

Okay so basically

[@mtb5778]

amazing scene. never seen anything like this.

[@nathanjedrej792]

It was like that scene in greystoke. Christopher lambert going round the dinner table growling and heaving bosoms a plenty.

[@massimilianodipendente2245]

Very powerful.

[@peterolesen3567]

5:14 right there, that's when everything went to s***

[@ban4486]

Is that Warren Buffet?

[@karenlewkowitz5858]

60+ takes. Powerful

[@ericvanderschueren3775]

La scène - sinon tout le film, bien qu'elle soit annoncée et comme filée après sa séquence - m'a fait penser à un film de Nagisa Oshima, Max mon amour, dont l'intrigue était la découverte par un mari bourgeois et pétri de convenances que sa jeune femme avait un amant : un chimpanzé. De l'art et de ses conventions cérémonieuses jusqu'à sa discours sur la chose, à l'amour paradoxal se jouent les mêmes crispations et les mêmes réflexes (l'hallali des pleutres qui se rachètent de leur lâcheté dans une mêlée comme une purge d'eux-mêmes où sauver la jeune femme n'est plus finalement plus le but).

[@pachusaurio]

It is a powerful, uncomfortable and provocative scene. The performance is impeccable and the address is very accurate. Now, a tip for those who upload this. If you want to have more views on KZbin, you should headline the video "Monkey at the party goes wrong" XD

[@gustavoclarindo101]

"You won't believe what happens next!!"🤣🤣

[@azzyclark3860]

Fucking amazing scene!

[@GabrielMacDougall]

I read somewhere that after the director said cut Terry kept standing his ground and screaming and destroying the whole set.

[@Dylan-Blok]

Love how they foreshadowed this scene. Like, barely. The only two things I recall are the monkey during the sex scene and when we saw this same dude on a big screen in the museum. Anyone noticed other foreshadowing?

[@KD--sj8eo]

Not really foreshadowing.

[@marcosloriggio8350]

increible

[@juliaandersson7479]

I just realized that the woman being attacked by the ape in the end is called "Princess Madeleine" in the Imdb list of characters. She's a royal, even.

[@tausendwasser6701]

Her name is Madeleine Trollvik, not royal at all (of course not).

[@juliaandersson7479]

@@tausendwasser6701 I meant the character, of course, not the actress.

[@asdfh-jj2xr]

​@Julia Andersson it's allegorical Ukraine

[@cody5630]

reminds me of Fritz Perl

[@beafboy01]

The interesting take I got from this is that it shows how much more "Civilized" "High-socety" is. Imagine this happening at a burger king, or with more working class people. He would have been mobbed a lot sooner. What does this say about "Society"?

[@yomandenmark]

good point

[@binra3788]

Why did everyone obey covid dictate? The terrorism is explicit in the scene above. But seeking 'herd' immunity is seeking personal salvation by distancing & abandoning 'others'.

[@beafboy01]

@@binra3788 No, one is a social construct, the other is solid scientific evidence ya peanut. Take your meds.

[@crayzmarc]

Seen the science now?.The papers Pfizer was forced to release? The adverse reactions? Your mind is a peanut if you don't check out the. true facts and swallow the narrative.

[@jonathanwalther]

@@binra3788 "obey covid dictate"? Geez, your ability to differentiate is approaching Zero.

[@Sobek88]

Did they kill him or was he in the plastic covered from the rain?

[@keboonplumeria5266]

It's just so painful to finish. So far, I think that Columbia looked handsome

[@asdfh-jj2xr]

Now we know that scene is about russian invasion to Ukraine. Prediction came true. 😮

[@stargazer3325]

well that was uncomfortable

[@MiniUsyk]

I'll have what he's having..

[@alexdolya7790]

who made this scene...

[@KaterinaRuud]

The director is Ruben Östlund, if that is what you mean.

[@itsluv5orca]

Claes Bang:👁👄👁

[@user-gg8ty9sm9l]

amusingly 😂

[@javierherrera4416]

Tarzan live action

[@calvinchao1507]

I hated the smartass at 4:30 more tho

[@The360Nate]

calvin chao That smartass is Dominic West who is a great actor I loved him as Jimmy McNulty in The Wire.

[@sawtoothdragoon9895]

Any movie he is in he's always THAT GUY it seems

[@urmumsbaps]

@@The360Nate the fuck did I do

[@vibefrog2177]

damn pcp is one hell of a drug

[@Uvisir]

Nobody actually listened to the instructions

[@iiscritical7795]

You aren't supposed to listen to the instructions, you aren't supposed to let someone else be attacked by a wild animal while you hide in the herd. That's the point. But what the scene illustrates so perfectly is that societally, we DO let bad things happen to other people because it's not happening to us.

[@dcdiegovideos]

O que foi isso?😅

[@wasgeorgewashington]

I’m so confused as to why at first when he began to rape her and she was screaming for help, no one did anything.

[@jiggajigjones8210]

I was shocked no strong independent woman got in there.

[@scravtasm8354]

This whole scene is about the bystander effect, among other things.

[@thegentleassassin]

@@jiggajigjones8210 Did you come up with that all by yourself? Wow buddy

[@Tired-of-fools]

It's the instinct of fear talking.

[@KD--sj8eo]

@@jiggajigjones8210 mong

[@user-mt6mu9uo8h]

russia/"civilized" western world

[@carlosadrianodesousareis4566]

Que loucura

[@thorinoakenshield396]

ThuleanPerspective expose this theme and banned from youtube.

[@DiegoM265]

Two cars crashes together. Far right extremists in the comments: "That's a metaphor of Russia and Usa"

[@mav7804]

Can someone explain to me what is happening? In the actual movie, is he just acting?

[@morganstephens1374]

The whole film is about an art museum so pretty much in the film he acts like an ape as a form of art and also the director told the guy to go into the scene and do whatever you want in there so basically nearly the entire scene was improv

[@yomandenmark]

@@morganstephens1374 i really hope that the last scenen with the wiman was not improv, but i doubt it was because there was some serious stunts with hairpulling, that he would nt have gotten away with without preparing the actress. also the hel p help help not bing repsonded to had to be scripted for the herd then to jump him later. i seriously hope so

[@monkeymamaa]

@@yomandenmark oh it's definitely scripted for the movie. In the movie, the guy with the broken glass is the art director, and before this dinner he told the guy to come as part of the museum exhibition. I hope that makes it clearer. Don't worry about the safety of the actors, they just did a really good job. You should watch the movie!

[@yomandenmark]

@@monkeymamaa I watched it and loved it. I am an actress myself, and safety is a very big topic, because people have gone too far when the camera was rolling. it's just that they said in an interview that he improvised a lot of the scene, so I hope that last bit with the woman is scripted. Midnight in Paris is one exampleof improved scene going too far. The actress was raped on screen. and those kind of things happen, but I hope that part was scripted, and i believe it was, because the hairpulling has to be instructed very minutely.

[@jameson1761]

@@monkeymamaa this scene scared I am sad nw

[@flocz5655]

That happens when u wear sneakers to a suit.

[@MrJocko111]

xD

[@conortague5410]

10:52 Did they kill him?

[@AMPFEAST]

no but they broke some of his teeth

[@glamdolly30]

Sure looks like it!

[@TuYolPol]

La vérité sur l'homme

[@doobiesmoke15]

So is he like supposed to be Tarzan or something

[@TheFoshaMan]

imagine that we are too close to behaving like this if it were not for that 1% that differentiates us from the chimpanzee

[@Qsoch]

Best scene in cinema about Russia and Europe relations. Лучшая сцена в кино об отношениях России и Европы.

[@babaroga73]

There's a difference between a bear and an ape.

[@galaka9390]

​@@babaroga73They are both animals. Они оба животные.

[@VerbranntiChaib1]

I had a student in my class who behaved in similar fashion. One of the family of a nasty bunch of folk who were into nasty stuff. Criminal, drugs and murders Their kids went to our school, where I was relief teacher, replacing the HOD who was on Stress Leave. The principal was also on Stress Leave.. The deputy was a nobody. I faced this person alone, with no support as the rest of the students admired him. I faced up to him Man to Man. in the car park after school. He stepped into his bright red expensive convertible and flicked his cigarette butt in my direction. I lost that little battle.

[@ancalagon1144]

What lmao

[@WhoreTorture]

This is god

[@jacklennon1035]

word up broski you've got an appreciation for fine cinema sigEP!

[@mikerigby1048]

Always prey on the predator.

[@ArvinYorro]

Imagine that is Putin. How long would it take before the world goes barbaric. Amazing scene. So many interpretations.

[@winstonwolf5706]

?

[@Tired-of-fools]

You only see what is before your eyes, do you not see the poetry behind this scene? It's not only about rape, it's about instinct, especially the instinct of preservation of life and fear. It goes far beyond these rape agendas, don't limit yourselves to the basics, go deeper. Animals act by instinct, human beings don't, but many humans end up choosing to act by instinct, which is cruel and foolish.

[@anaccount8474]

KZbin expert alert!

[@justinfung4351]

And yet look what civilisation gets you. Because of social codes and norms, they are blinded to the behaviour of the animal so much so that a woman almost gets raped in a room with a hundred people.

[@theidiotsarewinning2868]

I understand what the scene is trying to say, bystander theoy etc, but as part of the story....No mention of deranged actor going berserk in an art piece and being beaten to death? Press conference about a youtube clip though. WHAT?!?!?

[@AN4RCHID]

He doesn't get beaten to death

[@Dingodeel]

Man, scene is exhaustive, its not important what will be, author said all he want, that how movie like that works, not about characters, thats about idea. sry for my english btw

[@binra3788]

I see it as a cameo that is not so much part of the drama - as the background to all else. The film is the expansion of that theme. I feel it goes to the terror that our minds are predicated NOT to see, and to divert from in self pretensions seeking mutual reinforcement. The sudden shift from 'art' to life (and threat of loss of face - but suddenly fear of violation and death) - is also in our artifice or artificial lives that suddenly revealed as without foundation. We can also be led into self illusion by those who seek to profit or gain power thereby. We don't realise it IS illusion until suddenly all the rules and expectations of the world that is supposed to be happening are broken.

[@user-ls7vo9wo9j]

The idiots are Winning This is not really bystander theory

[@str.77]

@@AN4RCHID So that's somebody else in the plastic bag?

[@DaniCrimsonRed]

Idk this made me cringe and uncomfortable

[@MarxistMedia]

I mean it's supposed to make you uncomfortable.

[@pegasisilver6249]

This is western europe

[@KD--sj8eo]

Stop watching Fox News you cuck.

[@asdfh-jj2xr]

True. Scene about russian invasion to Ukraine

[@winstonwolf5706]

​@asdfh-jj2xr, that's deep, man.

[@aouanedjamel5850]

Not very convence me , its a style of scene but not realist at all , but i luve thé performance for sûre

[@coolstoryneedsmoredragons4336]

puny humans

[@tonyr3654]

Oh ya , this guy bought GME

[@ernergumo]

Contemporary art is anything but art

[@urmumsbaps]

Prove it

[@mykhailolysenko9820]

It is Putin's Russia

[@kylepirko9251]

It's in our DNA. That's all.

[@gFkDYVMx]

Western politicians vs Vladimir Putin

[@jhg1980]

now we know that it was an allegory for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Confused men are the European Union.

[@winstonwolf5706]

And they all clapped.

[@Sobek88]

This didn't age well, seems to be the other way around as anyone with a brain reading in between the lines would of know that long before this comment was made a year ago...

[@2kewl4uu]

Reddit brought me here

[@liquidsword29]

so.. is that Jim Carrey?

[@sesfilmsllc]

No.

[@xmodisgreat]

Monke

[@WingsTM]

This is where the movie totally lost me. It was realistic up to this point - but I really don't think a woman could be raped in front of a whole room full of people and nobody would do anything

[@benjaminnarancic]

In the end they did something, They all wait for someone else to take action, but fortunatly there's a limit.

[@arpudli8962]

unfortunatelly it happens many time... Imagine before war, everybody "I would not rape a woman" and than suddenly when the chaos reigns a country, rape became a part of every day life. So sad. Watch the scee again. First they are laughing at the phenomena, than somebody leaves, still no action. Action allways comes at the very end and only if some of the mass take a brave step. It represents reallity.

[@kornino]

I think this scene is about how freedom of speech (or freedom of acting in this case) is tolerable as long as people decide where the limit is.

[@MasterOfCookies8]

This scene illustrates the bystander effect. The more people are near you, the more you are keen to not act at all and expect someone else to act. Everybody was afraid and lowered to primates because of the insane atmosphere the "monkeyman" created. The moment someone acted everybody finally got the courage to do the right thing.

[@arpudli8962]

I am always taking actions but im a trouble maker.... However there are situations when you just dont... Society wise and individualy

[@jiggajigjones8210]

Chad has come. And he is not happy you forced him into Doomerish/NEET behaviour.

[@user-vm5hj8kt1x]

This scene is an allegory of the current political situation in the world. Russia has committed aggression against Ukraine. But the whole world "is concerned" is silent. No wonder here is an actor Russian. No wonder he was naked to the waist, as if Putin

[@meta1storm]

Actually the director said the monkey man was inspired by an actual russian artist named Oleg who played a dog and bit someone during his performance.

[@user-vm5hj8kt1x]

I would not like to think about him at all if he did not kill Ukrainians (12,000 people) and did not steal the territory of Ukraine. It's like when a person is forced to think about the illness that hurts her. Psychological help is needed for Russians who support this regime. Mentally healthy people do not knock down planes with peaceful people.

[@user-vm5hj8kt1x]

In the movie "крым, путь на родину", Putin himself said that it was a planned military operation (seizing the Crimea by Russian troops). You contradict your president?

[@VadimStreltsov]

I'm glad there are no objections about my other theses. What about the operation, I have no doubts it was planned, we're just talking about different things. You're talking about one of the secondary causes (Annexation of Crimea, not mentioning Euromaidan as usual), I was talking about the prime cause: the emergence of Ukraine itself, especially in its current territorial state, which is an insult to any Russian and to any sane person on the whole.

[@user-vm5hj8kt1x]

1. If we mention the USA - they never violate their obligations. The United States is always open. The United States does not act with the help of "green men" like russia. The term "hybrid (meanly, basely, rascally, dirtily) war" is closely linked to Russia. (Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine, etc.) 2. It is not just about statehood, but about ethnic territories. Russia has never been an ethnos. This is a mix of peoples without a specific territory. 3. This is typical for Russians: when there are no arguments and knowledge - the Russian begins to offend the interlocutor.

[@hikatogaming3870]

As soon as he knocked the cup out of the guys hand.. he was asking for a chair to the head and a steak knife (if on table) to the stomach. i wouldn’t tolerate any of that

[@BronzeEleven]

Yeah I think that's the point the scene is trying to make.

[@BronzeEleven]

@@TigrayBoxing There's a point in nearly every scene in the movie where someone asks for help and no one helps them. I think this is a comment on the "by-standard effect" and how we follow social cues and instincts rather than behave in a rational way that rises above our animalistic defects. That's the point of "the square" exhibition. It's an idea in our heads, a belief that we're like that, but notice in the movie the exhibition never opens and it remains nothing but an abstract idea. The reality we're shown is very different and the dining hall scene is the climax to that narrative.

[@Tattlebot]

@@BronzeEleven although it's scripted, best thing to do in this situation is to crouch at his height, facing him, looking without staring. Bear your teeth briefly to show non-dominance (humans have this instinct, called a nervous smile) and then hold your hand out. Now that i think about it that's very close to humans meeting strangers.

[@Uvisir]

it would have been part of the act.

[@justinlaite5542]

@@BronzeEleven *stander

[@ramiroparra9405]

Wtf