Dancer in the Dark

My second Las experience after Antichrist. The camerawork is also awful in this movie. It's the shaky = real and engaging theory. I've seen it done way better. There is something very self indulgent about this guys work. It's like he sacrifices story and and traditional methods for some daydream vision he had, and we're supposed to like it. The characters, dialogue, plot, music - nothing is engaging. Nothing is interesting on a basic level. I laughed a few times when I shouldn't have. Like when Selma shoots the guy. The acting was hilarious. The more I viewed it as a comedy, the more apparent was the stupidity of the movie was. Bjork's character became a comedy sketch show character. It it's very core I like the ideas. I like the the potential exploration of the character. It's just so lost in itself and inept, it's unbelievable. One of those movies for real movie lovers. In other words, read into it what you want and fool yourself. The perfect DVD to the dvd collection to impress pretentious people.