Complex sentence: The film focuses on sexual perversity and female martyrdom, issues that will continue in Trier's later work and that have challenged critics and commentators, who see the self-sacrificing submissive heroine as basically a misogynist cliche.
Split into simpler sentences: The film focuses on sexual perversity and female martyrdom, issues that continue in Trier's later work. Some critics see the self-sacrificing submissive heroine as a misogynist cliche.