Black screen with subtitles. . .

Devyn 2022-03-21 09:01:57

What do I want to say, the cast list with the black screen slowly rising can't let me get out of my own sink in an instant is actually a movie that may be really performed with heart. Bjork's clean, penetrating voice strikes a nerve more than anything else throughout the film. The contrast is strong and real, the ideal is far away and powerless but close at hand. When she gave up on appealing with the money for her son's surgery, what I saw was the complete despair and abandonment under that smile that raised the corner of her mouth. It's too much to me, in fact, she loves her son without courage and hope. This is not a kind of mother's love linked to responsibility, just like she explained that she knew her son would have an eye disease and gave birth to a son in order to feel the warmth of her embrace. . All love comes so naturally and naturally, if there is anything that Bjork performed that touched me so much, it was her interpretation of a woman who worked hard, longed for love, loved music, worshipped art, kind, brave, helpless, There's also a bit of an ignorant and stubborn woman, a woman who condenses everything you want or don't want to be. Life has given this woman more expressiveness, like her heart-piercing singing, and that smile that feels good from grief.
Contrasts are everywhere in the film, whether it is the brightness in singing and dancing or the cruelty in reality, the forgiveness in the imagination or the condemnation in reality, the fear before execution or the real calm and calm after the execution, the contrast always sublimates feelings and emphasizes the facts. There are also human rights and democracy, containment and oppression, which are alluded to by capitalism. Life is always like this, contradictions and continuations, people despise and accept. So everything is going on but continuing on the so-called natural track. Effort and persistence may be just words for self-pity. The dream is probably just a daydream with sugar added to some extent. Whether it is realized or not is not the theme. Enjoying it is the escape and comfort. It's all just for easy continuation.

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Dancer in the Dark quotes

  • Selma: Cvalda.

    Kathy: Why do you call me that?

    Selma: It's like, someone whose...

    Kathy: What?

    Selma: I don't know, just big and happy.

    Kathy: I am not that big. And happy, I don't know.

    Selma: You just need someone to pull it out.

  • Selma: I'm just not that kind of mother.

    Gene Jezkova: Can't you be that kind of a mother?