plot begins with Thelma telling Bill himself The location of the money jar starts out weird and incomprehensible. But it's commonplace mixed with absurdity, and everyone's behavior goes to extremes. The policeman who stole the money actually begged Selma to kill him. Even if Selma was desperate, she would actually choose a useless murder. Even if she was panicked after the murder, she would throw away the criminal evidence at will, and eventually she was naturally arrested. The testimony was weak. Lonely and helpless, except for a hint of desire when she heard that a new lawyer would defend her, at other times she showed no desire to survive. All the things she had done in the past, even the eye chart and the ophthalmologist, were factors that pushed her to death. For the sake of his son's eyes to see a doctor, he did not pay the defense lawyer, thus losing the opportunity to save himself? Well, how did the money come from is one of my doubts. The money pot is empty, and my life savings has been stolen. If I lose the case, the money still has to go to the policeman's wife. Empty, helpless, the plot loses its ability to control, like mud and sand.
"Can you believe her? A woman from a socialist country. Lies are full of lies. Lies are natural." I have always paid attention to this sentence of the appeal lawyer. Originally, this case should be directed towards second-degree murder. Let's go, but this sentence is the last hanging rope around Selma's neck.
There were no villains. The complaint system fails to protect the weak? Complaining about the inadequacy of the welfare system? Is accusation that greed devours humanity and destroys honesty, or that accusationism is a murderous knife that harms a family innocently? No, it's just an ordinary movie under the guise of a musical, a bland motherly love poem, a hodgepodge of everything. Thankfully, it's all just the world in Von Trier's camera.
Why did I like this movie back then? To be honest I don't know either.
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