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Leth must film in a "miserable" location without showing it to the audience. He chooses the red-light district of Mumbai. Von Trier also insists Leth play the role of "The Perfect Human" himself, forcing the filmmaker to feast on a salmon dinner behind a transparent screen while impoverished locals look on in the background.

: The film argues that absolute freedom can be paralyzing, whereas strict rules can spark unexpected genius. De fem benspænd

Paradoxically, von Trier "obstructs" Leth by giving him no rules at all. Suspecting a trap, Leth returns to Brussels and creates a noirish, stylized version that von Trier eventually dismisses as a failure for being too much of a "classic" Leth film. Leth must film in a "miserable" location without